It’s spreading! Reuters ran another glorious counter-revolutionary story yesterday headlined, “
Dutch election: Far-right's Wilders aims to be PM after shock win.”
These days, the headline editors must have the phrase “far-right” on a hotkey. It’s getting a lot of use.
In case you aren’t familiar, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders has long been characterized in corporate media as a “far-right” extremist. He often praises both President Trump and Hungary's conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and has even been called the “Dutch Trump.” Wilders is anti-leftist. He’s anti-Islam, anti-immigration, anti-Ukraine aid, anti-climate-change, and anti-EU. He promised voters that "the Netherlands will be returned to the Dutch."
In 2009, Britain banned Wilders from entry because “Islamaphobia.”
In other words, Wilders is a “Netherlands First” candidate — an anti-globalist. Yesterday, he and his party, “beating all predictions,” swept the Netherlands’ elections. Now, Wilders’ party controls more parliamentary seats than either of the other two large parties, which — although they’d like nothing more than to keep ignoring Wilders — will now be forced to work
with him to form a government and pick the next Prime Minister.
Reading between the lines, Reuters is terrified this far-right-ism is spreading like a bad cold sore, and if not promptly nipped in the bud, it could wind up speeding across the EU and even infecting what it calls “mainstream” parties, which includes anyone who thinks science says boys can use wishes to change themselves into girls:
Wilders' win sent a warning shot to mainstream parties across Europe ahead of European Parliament elections next June, which will likely be fought on the same issues as the Dutch election: immigration, cost of living and climate change. "We've had it with the old politicians," voter Herman Borcher said in the eastern town of Enschede, summing up the mood.
Like with the election of chainsaw-wielding economist Javier Milei in Argentina last week, corporate media’s headline writers were working overtime to characterize Wilders’ election results as
super bad news:
It’s a five-alarm fire. The BBC, yesterday:
One man’s “populist problem” is another man’s “freedom fighter,” or vice-versa. From CNN, yesterday:
Maybe comparing Wilders to Trump will do the trick. From Associated Press, yesterday:
The marxists think it’s just “
awful.” From the Economist, yesterday:
(Ironically, a
cordon sanitaire — literally, a “clean line” — is a quarantine zone for stopping infections from spreading. The Economist thinks conservatives are a
disease spreading across Europe.)
Before you know it, someone will probably link an article about how Geert Wilders went to Davos in 2006 or whatever, dumping cold water on rightfully-excited conservatives. But remember — this morning’s great news is not about
Geert Wilders. It’s about
Dutch voters, who are finally asserting themselves and becoming a force to be reckoned with. "We've had it with the old politicians,” said the lone personal-interest quote from the Reuters article.
In other words, the Dutch are so mad
they’ll even elect Geert Wilders. To stay relevant, the so-called “mainstream” parties will have to start mitigating their leftist madness, dragging everybody rightwards. Which is a sign of the pendulum swinging back.
This explosive worldwide populist movement can be traced back to 2016, with Brexit and with the shocking election of Donald J. Trump, both of which also “beat all predictions.” Ever since then, the elites done whatever they can to cram the populist genie back into the globalist bottle. They know it’s just a matter of time, and are racing to ram through as much of their globalist agenda as they can before the marxist music stops.
The pandemic bought the globalists a few extra years, but the boomerang is whirling around the corner and heading straight back at them.
We are
all “far-right” now.
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