Nazi cards are being played all over the world's media this morning, in the characteristic response of elites when voters increase their support for populists.  The dominant media throughout the Western world are horrified that Angela Merkel, just re-elected to a fourth term as chancellor of Germany with weakened support, will face a rising-force conservative party in the Bundestag, Alternative für Deutschland (the Alternative for Germany), or AfD.  AFP reports: Merkel, who after 12 years in power held a double-digit lead for most of the campaign, scored around 33 percent of the vote with her conservative Christian Union (CDU/CSU) bloc, according to preliminary results. It was their worst score since 1949. Its nearest rivals, the Social Democrats and their candidate Martin Schulz, came in a distant second, with a post-war record low of 21 percent. But in a bombshell for the German establishment, the anti-Islam, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany...(Read Full Post)