Merkel's job has just become infinitely harder. She hasn't declared whether she will seek a fourth term in the fall 2017 elections in Germany. Yet the time has passed where she could not do so without throwing her own party into disarray, which makes her the de facto candidate of her Christian Democratic party. It falls to her to apply the lessons of this historically divisive U.S. election to Germany, and to defend Western liberal constitutionalism against the politics of resentment and anger.
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