Posted on 11/22/2020 7:09:37 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
In power so long she has been dubbed Germany's "eternal chancellor", Angela Merkel marks 15 years at the helm of Europe's top economic power Sunday with her popularity and public trust scaling new heights as her remaining time in office ticks down.
With the coronavirus raging around the world, the pandemic has played to her strengths as a crisis manager with a head for science-based solutions.
Merkel, 66, has said she will step down as chancellor when her current mandate runs out in 2021, and leave politics altogether.
Assuming she finishes out her fourth term, she will tie Helmut Kohl's longevity record for a post-war leader, with an entire generation of young Germans never knowing another person at the top.
Once unthinkable calls for her to stand for yet another mandate can now be heard, however, spurred by her steady handling of the Covid-19 outbreak in Germany, where infection levels and deaths have remained lower than those of most European partners.
The vast majority of Germans say they put great stock in her "hammer and dance" strategy of tighter and looser restrictions based on infection levels, which she this month called "among the most difficult decisions of my time in office".
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Hitler’s daughter.
Maybe not, but she promotes Satanism.
There is a GIF out there, I should go looking for it. I’ll never forget it. It’s when W put his hands on her shoulders to give her a massage. She recoils in horror.
Hilarious.
Probably a beneficiary of Dominion.
And thanks to her “leadership,” 15 years from now the top 3 baby names in Germany will be Mohammed, Abdul and Khalid.
Longer than her mentor, Erich Honecker?
I’d love 15 + years of Trump.
Imagine 16 years of Trump...You say that as if it would be a bad thing...I'm not surprised.
“infernal” is more like it.
More appropriately she is Erik Honnecker’s “daughter.” Since she was born and raised in formerly Communist East Germany.
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You say that as if it would be a bad thing...I'm not surprised.That's just plain foolish.
Surpassed only by Putin.
Some German commented today...Merkel was the best Green Party Chancellor ever, and then cited around ten examples....all big goals of the 1980s Green Party, accomplished under Merkel leadership.
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