Trump's Dutch Fanboy Geert Wilders Loses. Sad!

[DonViejo]

Geert Wilders doesn’t just want to ban travel from Muslim-majority nations, he wants to ban the Quran itself. In stunning numbers, Dutch voters handed him a defeat Wednesday.

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY
NADETTE DE VISSER

03.16.17 12:00 AM ET

AMSTERDAM—Ban the Quran. Shutter the mosques. Denounce Islam as a fascist ideology, not a faith.

Many Donald Trump supporters may have thought the president they voted for would do just that. In fact, he just hinted at such things with his fill-in-the-blank rhetoric about Muslim bans during the campaign (and he’s still paying the price in the courts).

But one of Trump’s biggest boosters—one who spoke to a rapturous audience at the Republican convention—is a Dutch politician who is quite explicit when he calls for just such measures.

Geert Wilders, the dyed-blond hate-speaking avatar of European bigotry, has a devoted following in what Americans call the alt-right and the French, rather more accurately, call the fachosphere.

As the Netherlands went to the polls to elect members of parliament on Wednesday, partisans of the xenophobic extremism that Trump has inspired and that his closest aides hope to nurture were looking forward to a victory like frat boys at an away game they figured their team was sure to win.

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[bdamomma]

1. that was good news

I am so glad and relieved this clone of 45 did not get in. Go Netherlands!!

[SoCalNative]

2. To be clear

he and his party still won votes, and gained 5 more seats than they had previously, coming in second behind the winning party. They just didn't get enough votes to be the party in power.

They're not going away.

[lagomorph777]

3. Trump has scared the Europeans away from voting for crazies.

They see now what actually happens when you get one.

Apparently, they needed a Trump to remind them about Hitler and Mussolini.