Oh what the hell is going on over there
imagine my shock
It’s only a shock in the sense at this point
Shock for Europe
No pretty sure this is fairly normal for Europe.
Looks like the euros are adopting the American “this is not who we are” line
The sad thing is, this isn’t even a shocking up-set. The Netherlands has been flirting with right-wing populists ever since the rise of Pim Fortuyn. And PVV was already getting a significant number of seats in previous elections. The balance was now just slightly changed because the neoliberal right in the form of VVD fucked up governing so hard that a fair number of liberal votes that used to go to them ended up getting split between neoliberal center-right (NSC) and neoliberal center-left (GL-PvDA).
In somewhat better news, other chud-adjacent parties (FvD, BBB) also didn’t really perform well. Which means any extreme agenda items PVV may have aren’t going to survive a coalition.
only shocking to people who didn’t expect continental Europe to remain horifically racist
