This is
a headline I’ve been waiting to write for six years. German Chancellor
Emeritus Angela Merkel can’t put a bad
coalition together. This is the result of an election that saw
populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) rise and the Social Democrats, led
by Soros-stooge Martin Schultz,
fall.
Now the Free Democrats (FDP), led by Christian Lidner,
understand just how strong their position is. They don’t have to make a bad
deal with Merkel to get a seat at the table only to have to share it with the
ideologically-opposite Greens. They can force a re-vote, see their
standing rise, along with AfD and go for a far bigger piece of the pie.
But, ultimately, if Merkel’s CDU/CSU coalition party is to stay
together, and there’s no guarantee of that anymore, it will have to dump Merkel
herself if it wants to survive as a voting bloc.
Moreover, the CSU, led by Bavarian Governer Horst Seehofer,
could break off from the CDU making any kind of coalition building impossible
without a re-vote.
Merkel-ism’s
Last Stand
The
only thing this article by the Washington
Post gets right is that the decision now falls to President
Frank-Walter Steinmeyer. It lays out three scenarios, none of which
include the obvious, a re-vote. But, that is anathema to the Deep-State
on both sides of the Atlantic so it is ignored by the Post.
A re-vote, however, is what is likely on the table. The
powers-that-be in Europe will forestall that for as long as possible and try to
drag this through the Bundestag in the hope that Merkel can win the ability to
form a minority government. But, frankly, I don’t see why anyone would
want that other than to block any access to power by AfD.
With a minority government AfD’s voting bloc of nearly 100 seats
puts it in a very strong position to begin cutting deals with the other
parties, who publicly, say they would never work with them.
So, the reality of a re-vote is high. And that means gains for
all of the so-called conservative German parties – The CSU, FDP and AfD.
The nightmare scenario for everyone is AfD rising above 15% in any
re-vote. Stripping out the CSU’s 6.8%, Merkel’s CDU only got 26.8% of the
vote in September.
Falure to put a government together is not going to improve the
CDU’s standing. While the FDP, CSU and AfD all stand to gain to ensure
that Merkelism is thoroughly rejected. The Social Democrats have cut
their own throats, first by entering into the grand coalition with Merkel after
the last election and now after running Schultz as an obvious stalking horse
for Merkel.
It can’t be stressed enough that Schultz was put up to oppose
Merkel in order to lose, like McCain and Romney were here in the U.S. His
job was to funnel votes to Merkel from the Social Democrats.
But, it didn’t work.
What happened was a complete collapse of Merkel’s support, a shift
towards a Germany-first mentality. This is the opposite of who both
Merkel and Schultz are. They are EU-first people. And, while EU
sentiment in Germany is still very favorable, it is not favorable at the
expense of German values, and frankly, German women.
Immigration
Divisions Run Deep
Merkel’s radical adherence to Soros’ open borders ideology will
cost her the Chancellorship. It will also throw the EU into complete turmoil as
its de facto leader is deposed by a German electorate that is no longer wholly
committed to committing cultural suicide as penance for the Holocaust.
This leaves French boy-toy Emmanuel Macron to lead the EU at a
time when strong leadership is needed to navigate the coming insanity in the
banking system. I’ve been handicapping an end to the EU as it is
currently comprised for a couple of years now.
Watching the rise of populist movements across Europe has been
slow but steady. Despite getting Macron through in France, Front
Nationale’s populist Marine Le Pen beat two of the major French parties.
While we may still wind up with a “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss”
scenario in both France and Germany, the populist wave in Europe has yet to
crest.
The end of Merkelism is the
natural result of it. It was always a dead-end political
position. A federated Europe on Germany’s terms was never going to be
stable for more than the generation that sold it into being.
It was
built on a foundation of division, rolling the wealth of the continent up to
the Germans at the expense of everyone else. As I outlined in this article back in October:
Up to this point Germany has used southern Europe as its
dumping ground, trading Italian and Portuguese sovereign debt for BMWs.
But that scheme has reached its limit and is tearing the EU
apart. Germany doesn’t want to stop this arrangement nor does it want to
pay its ‘fair share’ of the burden for its resolution, i.e. debt relief for
what it considers the ‘Club Med’ countries.
German
politicians like Merkel have exploited this cynically for political gain but,
now that we’ve reached the debt limit she’s been exposed as nothing more than
mouthpiece for U.S. Deep State policy, not the leader of Germany.
The EU
Won’t Survive Merkel
And that’s where we are headed in Europe. Once Merkel is
gone, the real work of dismantling the current version of the European Project
can begin. Macron is the elites Plan B, an easily-swayed naif who will
promote whatever crazed nonsense they want.
That means
1. An EU army
to subjugate breakaway states.
2. New banking rules that ensure depositors get wiped out in the next financial crisis.
3. More legal
and political pressure on eastern European states like Poland, Hungary and the
Czech Republic that reject wholeheartedly everything Merkelism stands for.
4. Political
turmoil in Italy and Spain who will see the opening to get more autonomy as the
message from Brussels is less focused on saving Germany’s banks from contagion.
Merkel was really holding a lot of this together, but the
election results make it impossible for her to continue doing so. Her
legacy will be a Europe fractured along old tribal lines, exactly the opposite
goal of the EU.
Soros and the rest of the one-world elites will try to use the
chaos this unleashes to forge a new European identity, a stronger EU. But
don’t count on it. Theresa May is holding up better than expected in Brexit
talks. The Trump administration is getting its feet underneath it
domestically and that means ending John McCain’s run as President via the
Senate.
Once Trump has an actual legislative majority and his opposition
within the GOP properly neutered he will assist in the resistance against the
remnants of Merkelism.
This is why we need to watch the unfolding attacks on
Merkelism’s pillars of support carefully. The outing of the “Soros List”
of MEP’s under his control is significant. The abandonment of the
Clintons by Democrats of all shapes and sizes is as well. The loss of
diplomatic trust and, more importantly, respect of the U.S. by its allies in
all things Syria, as I outlined yesterday, will play into this as well.
And once the re-vote confirms the trend against Merkelism in
Germany, we will have clarity as to what the next phase of this story looks
like.
