Can Geert Wilders win the Dutch election à la Trump?

The Dutch head to the polls later this month, with the firebrand anti-Muslim candidate aiming to make his the largest single party in the legislature.

Geert Wilders, right, with his wife Krisztina in 2014. His Freedom Party holds 12 seats in the 150-seat Dutch parliament, but is aiming for more in the March 15 election.Phil Nijhuis photograph courtesy of the Dutch government

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 8, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—The Dutch political system may not have been deliberately designed to produce middle-of-the-road outcomes, but it certainly works that way in practice: many small parties, multi-party coalitions, and perpetual compromise. It is almost impossible to radicalize a system like this, but G...

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