Elon Musk's endorsement of Alternative for Germany less than two months before the general election has generated a lot of noise and uproar among the country's elites. Thorsten Benner, the director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, points to a political system “with increasingly messy coalition governments making strange bedfellows in an increasingly fragmented party system” as one of the reasons that prevents “better governing and to win back voters.”