<p>Former German Chancellor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/angela-merkel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Merkel</a> is facing intense backlash, including from her own political party, over a new memoir she wrote that is a nightmare for German political parties looking to stop the ascending right-wing AfD party.</p>
<p>She wrote the book hoping to &#8220;secure her crumbling legacy,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/angela-merkel-wants-her-memoir-to-save-her-legacy-its-backfiring-509b30c5?st=W9jzbM&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, noting that &#8220;the effort is backfiring.&#8221;</p>
<p>The more than 700-page book was &#8220;riling up even some of her most ardent supporters&#8221; because she does not believe that any of her failed policies were bad for the country — including allowing millions of Muslim refugees from the Middle East to be resettled in Germany.</p>
<p>Powerful German state broadcaster ARD titled the headline of their report on her book: “Much pride, little self-reflection.”</p>
<p>Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party blame her directly for the problems that the country is facing and they say that her memoir is making things even worse.</p>
<p>“The publication of this unrepentant, self-righteous book at a time of economic and political turmoil like this is hurting [her political party],” said former senior Merkel official Nico Lange.</p>
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<p>The report said that her approval rating has plummeted from her time as a popular elected official to someone that the German public has turned against. Her allies overseas have abandoned support for her, the report said.</p>
<p>The most shocking part of the report focused specifically on her retelling of why she allowed millions of Muslim refugees into Germany.</p>
<p>Merkel said that it was &#8220;fully irrelevant whether they had a right to stay in Germany or not&#8221; when she let them enter the country.</p>
<p>She then blamed the German people for the problems that the refugees have caused:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The consequences—failed integration, ballooning welfare spending, rising crime, political polarization—can be partly blamed, she writes, on Germans’ lack of “will to change.”</em></p>
<p><em>In the decade since she instituted her open-door policy, immigration has changed the face of Germany and its political dynamics. An average of around 400,000 immigrants—the population of a large German city—have entered each year, and Germany now spends as much on refugees as it does on defense.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The report noted that the phrase that Merkel repeatedly used to justify her failed policies — that she had &#8220;no alternative&#8221; but to do what she did — served as the inspiration for the Alternative for Germany, or AfD.</p>
<p>The AfD is rapidly growing and is now the country&#8217;s second-largest party.</p>

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