Far Right Candidate Wins Dutch Election

 In God’s timing of bringing the AGE OF GRACE to a close, it really won’t matter if far right, far left or centrist politicians win elections in free nations around the world.  Jesus is at the door no matter who the people elect.  But we must admit that it’s very fun to watch the Left freak out when the people vote in politicians who believe that there are only two genders, abortion is just a nice name for baby-killing, Islam is a dangerous religion hell-bent on world domination, and printing money and spending beyond your means will end in disaster.  Last week the Dutch elected a dude who has been warning for years that Islam is a dangerous ideology and the Leftists of Europe are freaking out.  How fun!

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Dutch elections rarely stir much excitement abroad, but the voting in the Netherlands Wednesday marks an exception. The big winner was Geert Wilders, a veteran right-wing campaigner, and the freakout his victory has triggered across Europe is something to behold.

Mr. Wilders’s Freedom Party (PVV) won a plurality of 37 seats in the 150-seat legislature. His next nearest competitor, a Labor-Green coalition led by Frans Timmermans, won 25 seats. Politicians will now negotiate to form a governing coalition, a process that often takes months in the Netherlands’ highly fragmented electoral system, and Mr. Wilders may not emerge as prime minister. But voters have sent a clear message.

To wit: Voters are fed up with a stale consensus on issues such as immigration and climate policy. The PVV’s biggest campaign issue for two decades has been immigration. Some 400,000 immigrants arrived last year in a country with a total population of nearly 18 million. While last year’s number may have been skewed by refugees from Ukraine, immigration has exceeded 200,000 every year since 2016.

This creates a substantial fiscal burden under the generous Dutch welfare state and strains the housing market. It’s also becoming a culture-war issue as voters worry the country isn’t properly assimilating Muslim migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Mr. Wilders can present himself as a tribune of these fears, having lived under police protection since an Islamist murdered film director Theo van Gogh in 2004. 

Centrist politicians heap scorn on Mr. Wilders’s proposed solution, which is to ban the Quran, new mosques and Islamic schools. This is extreme, and Mr. Wilders had to walk back those proposals to achieve the vote totals he did Wednesday. But if any other Dutch politician has better ideas for achieving assimilation, voters would be all ears.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wilders-message-from-the-netherlands-9224c43d