German is Latest Nation to Suffer Popularity of Hard Right

How to Govern in a Fractured Political Environment?

Germany's center-right government just faced an election in which a minority, a small but significant minofrity of voters opted for a Nazi like party. Germany has proportionate representation so that ugly party gets seats in the legislature. And so the ruling part of Angela Merkel faces a dilemma on how to put together a ruling coalition.

After her center-right bloc’s weaker-than-expected victory in Sunday’s election, Ms. Merkel faces no easy path to a fourth term. A coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats, her party’s favored partner, would still lack a majority of seats in parliament. And the center-left Social Democrats, who have governed alongside Ms. Merkel for the last four years, reiterated on Monday that they would refuse to serve as her junior partner for another term.

Somehow this will work itself out. But people need to stop being distracted by the ravings of a maniacal U. S. President and start paying attention to the rise of hate filled right wingers in the rest of the world. We fought a ware over that, remember.