The EU’s lab rats: The Dutch are about to test a virulent strain of modern politics

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The Netherlands is holding general elections on Wednesday, pitting a flaccid, US-vassal center versus a new right that overplayed its hand The Dutch are voting again. No big deal, you may well say. Recently, they do so boringly often, and, anyhow, the Netherlands is a small country with a rapidly aging population of barely 18 million and – notwithstanding some scattered colonial hangovers in the Caribbean – decidedly minor-league geopolitical oomph. But there are excellent reasons to pay

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