When you ask leading members of the Social Democrats to explain why on earth they are losing so much ground at a time when global capitalism has been getting such bad press, they have an easy answer. It is Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fault. The right-of-center chancellor, they feel, constantly outflanks them on the left: minimum wages, gender quotas in the workplace, same-sex marriage — they name it, she hastens to adopt it.
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