The tone of the article is cynical and ridiculing. It tries to paint the Left Party members as buffoons -- however, at the same time, in contrast with the MSM tenor for six months, it shows them explicitely as 'not scary at all'. I guess that can be called progress. The article ends with:

There is one small detail in the article I want to flag, one of the silly points used to paint the Left Party MPs as 'unserious':

It appears the author of the article was born at least not before 1980, and his politically awareness must date from not before 2005 -- that, or he is all too deeply embedded in an upper-class/neo-yuppie culture to not continue the culture war by mocking it. For, to ditch formal language and address comrades in an informal fashion was the default for the progressive Left from the sixties, and even during the Schröder years, the name usage of newly suit-donning foreign minister Joseph "Joschka" Fischer of the Greens was prominent enough to remind of this custom.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}