An exit poll says the far-right and anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders is heading for a massive parliamentary election victory. It's one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II and one that is bound to send shockwaves through Europe.
did the tulip people elect him because he was anti-eu/nato? (apart from being violently racist, which naturally appeals to garden people) Doesn't matter, the eu will pull a meloni on him anyway.
we have a huge housing crisis while the ruling party (VVD) has fucked up a lot since 2010. he offers a compelling scapegoat: it’s of course the migrants that leave our children without homes, take all our benefits, commit all the crimes and whatever else you want to blame them for. the current cabinet fell over the handling of asylum seekers and his position as outsider and opposition poses him as the alternative we need to his voter base. he has also been less vocal/more palatable about his most racist views.
what do you mean by this? i'm totally out of the loop here
Death to America
The current pm of italy ran on a far right platform that included, other than the standard right-wing shit, an anti-eu/nato stance. However, the eu/transatlantic types have managed to strongarm her into doing what they wanted anyway
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/01/italy-and-european-central-bank-are-on-collision-course-as-eu-economic-conditions-worsen.html
The right wing politicians are also simply grifters a lot of the time, that don't actually believe in everything they peddle.