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The people of the Netherlands go to the polls tomorrow in its most crucial election for decades. Firebrand anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders has garnered much international attention for his brand of right-wing populism.
But the Dutch are well accustomed to this kind of rhetoric. The history of populism in the country goes back to the early 2000s when Wilders’s ideological predecessor, Pim Fortuyn, was assassinated on the campaign trail for espousing much the same views.
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Jacques Paulus Koenis, Maastricht University
Dutch populism goes back much further than Trump, Brexit or even Geert Wilders.
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