"No one would accuse Germany of being anything but an open liberal democracy. And it's a liberal democracy with unique protections that will ensure it remains

"No one would accuse Germany of being anything but an open liberal democracy. And it's a liberal democracy with unique protections that will ensure it remains one (while other liberal democracies are hijacked with their own freedoms) [1]." The point of a liberal democracy is to protect the freedoms of its citizens. If the state sacrifices those freedoms to preserve itself, it remains a state and it may remain a democracy, but it ceases to be liberal in this sense. Germany is an illiberal democracy.