Comment by epolanski

> and her taking in of Syrian immigrants also didn't end well.

Syrian refugees.

They were escaping a civil war, they weren't looking for a job.

Most Germans supported taking the refugees as of 2015, less opposed it.

As for nuclear, Germany already had decided to phase it out before Merkel, in fact, her government partially reversed it. But Fukushima in 2011 was the nail in the coffin.