@theatlantic.com 8 years ago
When Populists Meet Proportional Representation
The European establishment is relieved after Dutch voters turned out en masse Wednesday to hand Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) a decisive victory over its far-right challenger, Geert Wilders’s Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), which fared worse than expected.“The Netherlands, after Brexit, after the American...