US EditionThe implosion of Geert Wilders
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The Dutch Left Lacks a Project — and the Will to Fight
Ahead of last week’s Dutch elections, the center-left called on voters to stop far-right leader Geert Wilders — but he won easily anyway. The Left needs to give working-class people a hopeful project to rally behind, not just rhetoric about defending democracy.
The implosion of Geert Wilders
A common method of intimidation in Dutch gang warfare is to hang an illegal Cobra firework on your opponent’s front door and then run away. The method is not dissimilar to that of greying, far-Right politician Geert Wilders, who, less than a year after his Freedom Party (PVV) joined the government coalition, has just blown it all up. Yesterday morning, Wilders told the leaders of the three other Right-wing parties in the governing coalition that
The White House on Wednesday implicitly expressed support for radical right leader Geert Wilders after the fall of the Dutch government. According to the US government, the Netherlands and other European countries are facing "serious threats" from immigration.
After Geert Wilders' PVV pulled the plug on the Dutch government on Tuesday, our northern neighbors have to go to the polls again. Is Wilders' kamikaze behavior strategically brilliant or does it mean his political death? 'I hope that people now understand that he can only stomp around.'
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