发自普林斯顿 — — 如果有人想找证据证明我们不是身陷两次世界大战之间大萧条时期的精神和政治世界的话，那么德国大选及其成果 — — 一个稳固的中右翼政府 — — 就是铁证。 在两次大战间隙期的德国，大萧条破坏了德国民主并导致了希特勒及其纳粹党徒的上台；而在今天的德国，二战以来最严重的经济危机却促成了默克尔女士的连任。
Princeton -- If anyone wanted evidence that we are not in the mental and political world of the interwar Great Depression, the German election result and its outcome – a stable government of the center-right - should be a clincher.  In interwar Germany, the Depression destroyed German democracy and led to the rise to power of Hitler and the National Socialists; in today’s Germany, the most severe economic crisis since the Second World War produced the reelection of Frau Merkel.