The establishment parties collectively have enough seats to form a government while excluding the PVV, the FVD and the Farmers party.
A brand new "centre-right" party just split off from the Christian Democrats in the final leg of the campaign and took everyone by surprise by eating up a lot of populist votes. It's exactly an "En Marche" or RFK Jr scenario where an establishment politician pops up pretending to be a more palatable populist, standing against the conventional parties, and people fall for it every time.
Note that Omtzigt, the 'new guy', split off from the Christian Democrats about two years ago when the PM tried to get him removed from the parliament for holding the government accountable. He actually stole fewer populist votes than expected. 35 seats for Geert Wilders is an absolute stunner, more than anyone expected. This will send shockwaves through all of Europe.
Count up the number of populist and semi-populist seats and you will find a great improvement. And if the new party does not deliver, his voters will simply move to the other ones.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not white pilled. I think that none of this will amount to anything. Just not for the reasons that you think.
The only truly "anti-establishment" parties in the Netherlands are the VVD, the FvD and the Famer-Citizen coalition. Now that support for the latter has collapsed, even combined with Wilders they'll get about a quarter of the seats. The most intelligent and thoughtful dissident leader is Thierry Baudet, and it looks as though the FvD may not even win a single seat, so say goodbye to all of his epic speeches. Overall, considering the momentum behind the Dutch farmers protests last year, this is pretty disappointing.
And because parliamentary systems are fucking retarded, he won't be permitted to have any governing role.
The so called conservatives and center parties will join with the leftists.
They will certainly try, but this defeat is so immense that they will have a hard time doing it.
And if they do, they'll lose even more voters and end up in a worse situation.
My worst worry is that he will prove another Meloni.
The establishment parties collectively have enough seats to form a government while excluding the PVV, the FVD and the Farmers party.
A brand new "centre-right" party just split off from the Christian Democrats in the final leg of the campaign and took everyone by surprise by eating up a lot of populist votes. It's exactly an "En Marche" or RFK Jr scenario where an establishment politician pops up pretending to be a more palatable populist, standing against the conventional parties, and people fall for it every time.
Note that Omtzigt, the 'new guy', split off from the Christian Democrats about two years ago when the PM tried to get him removed from the parliament for holding the government accountable. He actually stole fewer populist votes than expected. 35 seats for Geert Wilders is an absolute stunner, more than anyone expected. This will send shockwaves through all of Europe.
Count up the number of populist and semi-populist seats and you will find a great improvement. And if the new party does not deliver, his voters will simply move to the other ones.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not white pilled. I think that none of this will amount to anything. Just not for the reasons that you think.
The only truly "anti-establishment" parties in the Netherlands are the VVD, the FvD and the Famer-Citizen coalition. Now that support for the latter has collapsed, even combined with Wilders they'll get about a quarter of the seats. The most intelligent and thoughtful dissident leader is Thierry Baudet, and it looks as though the FvD may not even win a single seat, so say goodbye to all of his epic speeches. Overall, considering the momentum behind the Dutch farmers protests last year, this is pretty disappointing.