Conversely, there are, or should be sufficient liberal democrats and compassionate politicians in the Bundestag to use their collective debating skills and exercise of power to erode the appeal of the AfD.
But before any of this can take place, Angel Merkel and her CDU/CSU bloc must form a complementary, cohesive, stable and secure coalition.
To take German and the German people, to a better place, where more of them are having their basic and other needs met.
A place where Germany can take up some of the leadership vacuum in the international affairs, and play a bigger role in making the whole world a more peaceful and better place.
Including for the migrants and refugees who have, at least in part, become the unwitting driver for many, if not all of those Germans who are responsible for the successful showing of the AfD.
Because, when people do not have to leave their countries of birth, because of wars, famine and/or dire poverty, there is less need for other countries to put up barriers and fences to keep them out.
Angela Merkell is, arguably, the most well-equipped, in terms of experience, competence and capacity, to be leader of Germany. Nationally and in terms of it fulfilling its international leadership role, at this particularly challenging period in its post-war history.
Those who are accusing her of 'flip flopping policies', citing her having changed from her austere approach towards allowing refugees and migrants into Germany, to espousing a more humanitarian and accommodating approach, might not be without some justification.
However, it is not really about whether or not a leader should change their position about a given issue.
Rather, it is about whether they have changed from a bad or less good policy to a better one.
Of course, for Germans who would prefer the country not to have taken in any refugees or migrants, or much less than it Germany actually took in.
Conversely, for those fortunate refugees and migrants, as well as the Germans who do not oppose them coming into the country, it was a better policy than Angela Merkel's previous 'keep them out' one.
It is likely that some Germans would prefer African migrants and refugees to be kept out, while they display more tolerance to, say, Syrian and Yemeni refugees and migrants.
However, while it really is the case that Europe cannot accept or encourage the migration of economically destitute people from Africa and other poor and/or acutely conflicted countries. As the panacea to their failed and/or failing economies.
German, like France, Belgium, America, Spain and Portugal, have a debt of honour to Africa, or parts of Africa.
This is also a debt which Angela Merkel's new government, once it is formed, could repay.
By, e.g., joining with other governments, such as the Chinese, in widening and giving more impetus to infrastructural and economic and social development projects in countries on the African continent.
That, after all, can be part of the process of winning back some of the disaffected Germans who have voted for the AfD. And it could also win the support of the FPD and the Greens.
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