It truly is a decision between Merkel – an admittedly flawed but nonetheless sane and effective leader – and a dangerous ideologue from the Alternative for Germany
Trump’s abuse of Merkel is more likely to help her in that election than not – if the Germans even remember it by then. Don’t conflate opposing the fiscal oppression in the EMU with support for the far right. That’s a mistake that will, with certainty, destroy European unity. The far right feeds on oppression and resentment. Remove the oppression, you weaken the far right. Keynes tried to warn us of that after the treaty of Versailles. He was right.