German chancellor Angela Merkel is in the midst of a re-election campaign where her primary opponents are on the far left.  The populist Alternative for Germany party has suffered a huge decline in the polls, now garnering support in the teens.  Having dispatched her opponents on the right, Merkel must fend off the challenge from the left.  To do this, she is feeding the anti-Trump hysteria generated by socialists and greens, giving them no opening to criticize her for being soft on Trump's America. The recent G-7 summit offered Merkel an opportunity to bash the American president while advancing her pro-EU agenda. Fox News: "All I can say is that we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands," the German leader told a crowd during a re-election campaign event at a beer tent in Bavaria. "The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days." That was widely...(Read Full Post)