Freedom is truly in a bad state in a country where the news that a regularly planned party congress was able to take place, despite massive threats against it from an activist class, is greeted as good news. It is surely also in a bad state if popular cartoonists face cancel culture and threats to their livelihood simply for being too sympathetic to the populist Right. The cartoonist is Bernd Zeller, whom I met just days before the AfD party con…