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Angela Merkel has commented on the AfD’s big win in Saxony-Anhalt. She says that her “heart is bleeding” and that the AfD is growing because there aren’t any “fact-based debates” in modern politics and that feelings now dominate instead. She warned that the election in Saxony-Anhalt was “a turning point for Germany” and also stated that it was the progress of the Enlightenment that allowed humanity as a whole to agree on facts. She argued that that if feelings are now allowed to take supremacy and facts are no longer valued as the most important thing, “that would be a step backward for civilization.” She didn’t say anything about the ramifications her decision to open Europe’s borders in 2015 has had for European civilization…