Betting against Merkel rarely pays off. But the migration controversy could leave long-term scars on German politics. One government official noted that while U.S. politics was polarizing over the past 15 years, Germany’s major parties — and especially Merkel herself — had gravitated toward the center. Immigration, he said, is one of the few issues that splits the country in half and could set Germany toward a brand of polarization very familiar to Americans.
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