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Populist Wilders may have come up short, but Dutch intolerance is still real

  • Written by Annemarie Toebosch, Director of Dutch and Flemish Studies, University of Michigan

The Dutch elections on March 15 have received a lot of attention in the international media.

The reason for the attention is clear: A Trump lookalike populist, Geert Wilders, was rumored to win big as part of a Western populist movement that some call the “Patriotic Spring.”

His rise has the liberal West confused and concerned, because...

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