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Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
'Merkel has President Barack Obama to thank for much of that. During his last official visit to Europe in mid-November, about a week after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential race, Obama spent hours preparing Merkel for the likely consequences of Trump’s victory. Intentionally or not, the outgoing U.S. President also gave the impression of “passing the baton” to the woman he called his closest foreign ally, leaving her to defend the liberal establishment that Trump and his cohorts in Europe had set out to dismantle. Many commentators even began referring to Merkel as the new leader of the free world, a title that she dismissed as “grotesque” and “absurd. ...
... Nor is it clear that Merkel is strong enough, even within her own country, to uphold the liberal values that many people now expect her to defend. ...
... Merkel said that Muslim women should be prohibited, “whenever legally possible,” from fully veiling their faces in public. It was a stunning reversal ... '
http://time.com/4598467/angela-merkel-donald-trump-liberal-democracy/
... Nor is it clear that Merkel is strong enough, even within her own country, to uphold the liberal values that many people now expect her to defend. ...
... Merkel said that Muslim women should be prohibited, “whenever legally possible,” from fully veiling their faces in public. It was a stunning reversal ... '
http://time.com/4598467/angela-merkel-donald-trump-liberal-democracy/