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"Ms. Merkel, for all her power and influence, is just one politician. Germany’s new political crisis runs much deeper. It stems from an economic system that has resulted in stagnant wages and insecure jobs. The erosion of Germany’s postwar settlement — a strong welfare state, full-time employment, the opportunity to move up in the world — has created a populace open to messages and movements previously banished to the fringes." It doesn't matter who replaces Merkel. Germany is broken. A background analysis German capitalism

Capitalism, democracy, climate, war, “globalism” and “national statehood” are off the agenda while purists ineffectually worry about the “niceties of national and international asylum law”. Reinventing the Anti-Immigrant Wheel

The multiculturalism the European right fears ...

"Her credibility as substitute leader derives from the self-generated myth that she is a humane, skilled opponent of the racist, nationalist Right.  Yet Merkel, though you would hardly know it from the reporting, is one of the major architects of Europe's racist backlash against migrants and Muslims. She is not so much the anti-Trump as, in her way, the condition for all Trumps." Merking

"Last month in Germany, for example, lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage (and adoption) in a historic vote. The anti-Muslim populist party Alternative for Germany opposed the measure on ideological grounds, while all six Muslim members of parliament voted in support of the bill. Incidentally, Chancellor Angela Merkel, now widely seen as the pre-eminent guardian of western liberal values, voted against the bill." How the 'homophobic Muslim' became a populist bogeyman