The text reads a bit too much like ChatGPT.

For example:

This isn’t about resentment; it’s about understanding how one woman’s provincial timidity shaped an entire generation’s political culture – and why voting for her, even once, was a mistake that cost us dearly.

And this reveals a bit the prompt:

Before diving in, a brief note on scope. This essay examines the structural costs of Merkel’s stability and the opportunities Europe lost under her long pragmatism. It doesn’t deny her crisis competence – the Euro’s survival, pandemic steadiness, and record employment – nor the limits of coalition politics and federalism.