Both parties in Germany’s ruling coalition have failed to attend to the concerns of their base, and have thus allowed competitors to capture the allegiance of their traditional voters.
There is one enduring lesson from Angela Merkel’s big political defeat this weekend that bears repeating on both sides of the Atlantic: This is what happens when you don’t listen to your citizens.
Trump is for real, like it or not, because the people who are attracted to him have real problems, and for the most part they are problems not of their own making.
Faced with its own long-standing territorial issues with Russia, Japan under Shinzo Abe is holding a strong line against the illegal annexation of Crimea.
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