The political geography of the German Republic has undergone a seismic shift. Following the 2025 federal election, the Bundestag feels fundamentally different: colder, sharper, and more polarized. The disappearance of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from the parliamentary floor is not merely a footnote in electoral arithmetic; it represents a structural rupture in the German political system. For the first time in decades, the mechanism that balanced the equation between social welfare and econo