The alternative media are celebrating the imminent -demise of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship almost as exuberantly as she and her claquers celebrated their election victory in 2013. On days like these – when the CDU’s parliamentary group leader Volker Kauder was overthrown, in place of the hated witch from the Uckermark. The bitter end for her is really only a question of time, too, because the opportunists are now betting on new magicians. Merkel, like so many politicians before her, missed the opportunity to resign at the right time. Now the political incentive systems are grinding against her. Journalists of the … Continue reading Merkel’s Final Days