I think we’re entering the phase of ‘everything we don’t like is a threat to democracy’ stage of democracy. Clearly their real concern is the growth of AfD, I’m sure if lonely people took up gardening instead they wouldn’t care about them being lonely.
That is fair, my thinking with regards to 'entering' was around 'everything' in that there is a rapid increase of scope of possible threats to democracy to include things that were normally considered rather benign. This part feels recent - but it's entirely possible that I'm late to the party.
