German chancellor Angela Merkel has paid a steep price for her controversial 2015 decision to let in millions of people fleeing Middle Eastern and African countries. Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic Union, came in first in Sunday's elections, but its 33 percent haul was its worst result since the party's founding in 1945, at the end of WWII. (The opposition Social Democrats also turned in their worst post-war result.) Merkel's policies on refugees and, in particular, her poor record on assimilation of migrants led 1.1 million of her party's 2013 voters to flee to the nationalist Alternative for Germany, which won a stunning 13 percent of the vote ...
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