200,000 people in Munich are setting an example that will last. This is also because the rally went differently than planned.
Imagine it’s Sunday in Munich and there’s a big demonstration against, let’s call them by their names, fascists. You walk through the streets of your neighborhood with your self-painted cardboard sign. You see more and more people walking the same path. And you think: Maybe we will reach the predicted 20,000. Then you sit in the completely overcrowded subway, you see hundreds waiting at every platform, all with the same goal, and you think: This could be something big. Finally you have to get out because there is no way to get to the rally site even with the subway. You set off on foot with thousands of others. Then comes the news: There are many more than anyone would have dared to predict. Maybe 200,000 people. And you find out that the meeting has been canceled. Because there were too many…