The Netherlands is not without its dark colonial legacies & enduring socio-political challenges. Nonetheless, the nation has long been a 'balancer' in the EU, more generally a pillar of communitarian & socialist principles. This holds true even despite influential parties like the GreenLeft shift toward left-liberal values.

And so it's tough to see Wilders' PVV see such strong peformance in the NL elections. A swing to the Right as sudden as we see in many places rn, sure to work together