Merkel is unstoppable. She has the leaders of the other large parties wrapped around her finger. Nobody is able to capitalize on german postwar guilt, centrism in social policy and neocon economics like her. The afd are a ragtag band of crazies who are feared by most germans.

Merkel's horrendous errors on the migrant file is not her only mistake. She bullied the greeks into submission, made a deal with the devil with erdogan, and has presided over the creation of an entire generation of german workers making less than half of what their parents made, with few benefits.

the mistakes far outnumber the good decisions, but Merkel will stay on because she can. A good argument for term limits.