The cover of Oliver Nachtwey’s book depicts a VW Beetle  emblem of Teutonic manufacturing prowess since Hitler’s day  driving off a cliff Is the country that got used to imposing its values on feebler client nations — bailing out southern Europeans with their oversized public sectors  rampant tax avoidance and long lunches — in trouble? The Germany described by this Frankfurt School professor is a basket case — post-growth  post-democratic  with the first fascists in the Bundestag since the Third Reich