This is hilarious . We know who he is . We know he personally stands for nothing and changes his word based on the last person he talked to . What matters is who he surrounds himself with . Steve Bannon , Mike Pence , and Jared Kushner are the voices who will decide the next 4 years . One is a white supremacist , one believes gays can be tortured into becoming straight , and one flatly does not care about anyone besides the rich becoming richer . Maybe you want to give him a chance because you ' re ignorant about who he is , but that sure as fuck doesn ' t mean those of us who ' ve been paying attention have to do the same thing . <| sep |> Send it to blind gossip . <| sep |> Don ' t get your hopes up . The only scenario without Merkel as chancellor that seems realistic right now would be a coalition between SPD , Greens and the Left . If Schulz becomes spitzenkandidat there ' s a better chance of this being mathematically possible than with any other candidate that the SPD could conceivably put up , but a coalition with the Left still isn ' t popular with large parts of SPD and the Greens , and vice versa . Another Grand Coalition or even CDUCSUGreen is more likely , although the latter would have some of the same issues with the respective parties ' bases between CSU and the Greens especially .