Geert Wilders

precursor to alt rt eur // le pen?

ginni legal flak koch lawyer denied wd spk at 911 mosque (gingrich also bail/deny)

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During the United States' 2024 presidential race, many critics of Donald Trump — from Democrats to Never Trump conservatives — warned that if he won the election, the U.S. would suffer not only from a domestic standpoint, but also, from a foreign policy standpoint. Critics argued that in Europe, a Trump victory would harm the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and encourage far-right extremists like Hungarian Prime Viktor Orbán, France's Marine Le Pen (who heads the National Rally party), and the Alternative for Germany party.

According to Politico reporter Max Griera, Europe's "far-right leaders" — including Orbán, Le Pen, Spain's Vox party, and members of the Patriots for Europe party — are feeling empowered now that Trump is back in the White House.

Their celebratory mood was evident during an event in Madrid on Saturday, February 8.

"Boasting about a new era of conservative governments in Europe under the motto 'Make Europe Great Again,'" Griera reports, "the Patriots for Europe party — the third-largest EU political family — held its first rally since its inception after last summer's EU election. On the menu? Scrapping green policy, battling Islam, taking down Brussels EU governance, migration, opposing gender and family diversity, and fighting 'population replacement.'"

Orbán, during the event in Madrid, declared, "Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future."

Le Pen told attendees, "We're facing a global tipping point."

"The guests, mostly Vox's most loyal supporters and political muscle from across Spain, descended on Madrid Airport's Marriott Conference Center to fill a 2000-seat auditorium, armed with their Dior scarfs and Barbour jackets," Griera observes. "They came to listen to leaders including Orbán, Le Pen, the Netherlands' Geert Wilders, Italy's Matteo Salvini, Czechia's Andrej Babiš and Austria's Herbert Kickl, who joined via video link as he finalizes negotiations in Vienna to become Austria’s new chancellor. One after the other, the leaders vowed to 'reconquer' Europe's governments from socialist, liberal and center-right forces — building an explicit parallel to Spain's 'Reconquista,' when Christian kingdoms reconquered the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rulers in the Middle Ages."

Wilders, sounding very Trump-like, told the crowd, "People have had enough of illegal immigration. And I ask you, do you have enough of crime in Spain? Do you have a lot of Islamic immigration in Spain? Do you have enough of woke insanity?.... You were the first who rolled back Islam and restored the rich heritage of Christianity in your country. That's why we are great admirers of Spain."

Similarly, Krzysztof Bosak, leader of the far-right Konfederacja in Poland, told attendees, "We will defend Christianity and traditional values.… We will defend traditional and normal family: mother, father and many children."

*Read Politico's full article at this link.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/alt-right-women-and-the-white-baby-challenge/

red ice women in kkk robes w/ infant pix]

If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated minority and eventually lead to white extinction. The alt-right frequently expounds on and alludes to the declining white birth rate and refers to concerning numbers of suicide among middle-aged white men, as well as the devastating opioid epidemic and its impact on white families. Recent surveys do show that American women of all backgrounds are having fewer babies, less than the replacement level of 2.1, mainly due to deep economic concerns like the high costs of child care. Depending on how race and ethnicity data in the US Census is interpreted, non-Hispanic whites will constitute less than 50 percent of the population around 2050. Alt-righters weaponize census projections relying on the narrowest percentages to count whites (as non-Hispanic whites with no mixed-race identity), and thereby hype their claims of impending white genocide. These problematic projections serve the alt-right well in whipping up demographic fear, which is propagated by mainstream right-wing pundits like Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Tucker Carlson. The alt-right twists these fertility and mortality statistics away from questions of health disparities and income equality to prima facie evidence of a nearly conspiratorial campaign of white extinction.

One response to looming “white extinction anxiety” is to produce white babies—many more white babies—principally of Northern and Western European ancestry. Unlike immigration or refugee bans, forced deportations, or the reintroduction of racial segregation, which require heavy-handed policies, white nationalism can grow through procreative means, boosted by pronatalist programs. As one contributor to Counter-Currents proposes: “Having three—or five or eight—White children is probably the most ‘pro-White’ thing a person can do—and the most resistant to any charge of ‘racism.’ How about that?”28 Propagating wildly does mean that alt-right men will need to convince themselves that procreation and coupling—and a likely future of vanilla sex with a wife—are enticing. This tamed path of husband and father is far afield from the erotic conquests and hook-ups prioritized in the manosphere.

Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents broaches the difficulties of convincing horny and entitled 20- and 30-somethings to bite the bullet and breed. The smackdown he gives this audience focuses on the urgency of perpetuating ancestral white bloodlines: “If you are worried about having kids, or you’re not sure if it’s a good idea, or you’re not sure if you’re up to it, or you’re afraid that you’re bringing them into a terrible world, just think about all of the ancestors that you had going back to the very beginning of our race. Every one of these people probably had it harder than you.” He asks them the berating question: ”Are you going to be the whiny little maggot who brings all of their striving and struggles to oblivion because you just can’t get your act together and decide to go off the goddamn pill or stop using condoms or whatever and just take the plunge and carry the race forward one more generation?"

Appeals to ancestry abound in the alt-right, and nationalist women express some of the loudest calls for white-baby making. In 2017, Wife with a Purpose, the alt-right social media activist who chronicles her life as a proud nationalist and Mormon mother, was taken with a tweet posted by Iowa representative Steve King. Itself riffing off a tweet from the acerbic right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wildersabout the threat of Muslims to the Netherlands and the foreseen demographic disappearance of whites, King aped, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” This resulted in swift condemnation and ridicule in many quarters of the mainstream media, and King himself received bemused and angry tweets from congressional colleagues, some posting photos of their smiling multiracial children. Wife with a Purpose, who asserts that “her primary duty is having children and supporting her husband,” issued a “white baby challenge,” throwing down the breeding gauntlet: “As a mother of 6, I challenge families to have as many white babies as I have contributed.” Once her challenge went viral on social media, Wife with a Purpose received much censure. Telling, however, were the thousands of comments praising and defending her on her YouTube channel: “I stand in solidarity with Ayla,” “Love This Woman!,” “She is 100% right,” and “Make White Babies Great Again!”

Red Ice’s Radio 3Fourteen, hosted by Lana Lokteff, is the most visible online arena for discussions of nationalism from a female alt-right perspective. Lokteff’s interviews and vlogs receive 10,000 to 200,00 views, depending on the topics, which range from the benefits of New Age herbs to the wonders of being a traditional wife, and from criticisms of the positive depictions of interracial couples on the mainstream media to the hazards of “migrant invasions.” Lokteff and Red Ice TV provide the online base camp for a networked public of alt-right women, who act as a chorus to demand preservation of the exalted Western civilization that their white men built. In her vlog They Want You Dead White Man! Lokteff delivers an impassioned commentary as a cascade of sensationalistic headlines flash across the screen and paint a frenzied picture of relentless attacks on white men in Europe and the United States. Lokteff reminds her viewers that straight white men are the world’s great inventors and creators and, moreover, that these tolerant and kind souls always are the ones to come to rescue the less fortunate. What would the world be like without these saviors?

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LP: You’ve noted in the past that President Obama was not realistic in arguing that the U.S. economy could keep growing without increasing CO2 emissions thanks to the rollout of renewable energy technologies. How do you assess the situation now under Trump? What about Europe and China? Is anyone being more realistic today?

SS: The outlook is not good. The Trump administration is not the only government announcing its withdrawal from the voluntarist Paris agreement. (I call it voluntarist, because the agreement concerns official pledges by countries to reduce CO2 emissions, but lacks enforcement mechanisms). The Bolsanaro government in Brazil, the new government in Australia, part of the Italian government, and more are threatening to do the same.

China has made huge advances in energy efficiency and has also started to decarbonize, but the scale factor of China’s economic growth is still more than offsetting the drastic improvements in energy and carbon technologies.

The European Union (EU) is not delivering and policies are often counterproductive. Look at the ‘Yellow Vests’ protests in France. French President Macron proposed a consumer carbon tax on (car) fuels, which will hit the incomes of people who aren’t wealthy and who already have to cope with all kinds of economic insecurities and downward mobility. The outcome is not just a populist revolt, but a major discrediting of climate change mitigation policies.

In the Netherlands, the center-right government proposed a carbon tax on consumers but not on major polluting corporations.In March 2019, voters revolted. The government parties lost the provincial elections to a new rightwing populist party, which says that climate change is just a Marxist plot!

The EU has to come up with climate policies which protect the lower- and middle-income groups as much as is possible from the costs of adjustments, while taxing carbon emissions at their source. That means taxing the 100 global corporations which together are responsible for around 70% of cumulative CO2 emissions. It means taxing the rich to bring about a more fair and politically acceptable burden of adjustment.

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Geert Wilders (Dutch: [ˈɣeːrt ˈʋɪldərs]; born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician who is the founder and the current leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid– PVV).^[1][2] Wilders is the parliamentary group leader of his party in the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer). In the 2010 formation of the Rutte cabinet, a minority cabinet of VVD and CDA, he actively participated in the negotiations, resulting in a "support agreement" (gedoogakkoord) between the PVV and these parties, but withdrew his support in April 2012, citing disagreements with the cabinet on proposed budget cuts.^[3] Wilders is best known for his criticism of Islam;^[4] his views have made him a controversial figure in the Netherlands and abroad, and since 2004 he has been protected at all times by armed bodyguards.^[5]

Raised a Roman Catholic, Wilders left the church at his coming of age. His travels to Israel and the greater Middle East as a young adult helped form his political views. Wilders worked as a speechwriter for the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie – VVD), and later served as parliamentary assistant to party leader Frits Bolkestein from 1990 to 1998. He was elected to the Utrecht city council in 1997, and one year later to the House of Representatives. Citing irreconcilable differences over the party's position on the accession of Turkey to the European Union, he left the VVD in 2004 to form his own party, the Party for Freedom.

Wilders has campaigned to stop what he views as the "Islamisation of the Netherlands". He has compared the Quran to Mein Kampf and has campaigned to have the book banned in the Netherlands.^[6][7][8] He advocates ending immigration from Muslim countries,^[6][9] and supports banning the construction of new mosques.^[10] Wilders was a speaker at the Facing Jihad Conference held in Israel in 2008, which discussed the dangers of jihad, and has called for a hard line against what he called "street terror" exerted by minorities in Dutch cities.^[11] His controversial 2008 film featuring his views on Islam, Fitna, received international attention and extreme criticism. His party was also sued due to content being used in his film without permission.^[12] He has been described in the media as populist^[13][14][15] and labeled far-right,^[16][17][18] although this is disputed by other observers.^[13][19][20] Wilders, who long refused to align himself with European far-right leaders such as Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jörg Haider and expressed concern about being "linked with the wrong rightist fascist groups",^[21] views himself as a right-wing liberal. More recently, however, Wilders worked together with the French National Front's Marine Le Pen in an initially ill-fated, but eventually successful attempt to form a parliamentary group in the European Parliament which now includes parties from nine countries, among them Austria's Freedom Party, Italy's Northern League, and Belgium's Flemish Interest.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Geert Wilders has been charged in relation to incitement multiple times. Wilders was first accused of criminally insulting religious and ethnic groups and inciting hatred and discrimination. He was found not guilty in June 2011. In 2016, he landed in court again and was found guilty of incitement and encouraging discrimination against Moroccans.^[26]

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Early life and career

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Wilders started off his political development under his mentor,Frits Bolkestein.

Wilders was born in the city of Venlo, in the province of Limburg. He is the youngest of four children,^[27] and was raised Catholic. He was born to a Dutch father and a mother born in colonial Indonesia,^[28][29] whose background was mixed Dutch and Indonesian.^[30][31] His father worked as a manager for the printing and copying manufacturing company Océ,^[32] and had hidden from the Germans during the Second World War, an experience so traumatizing that he refused to physically enter Germany even forty years later.^[33]

Wilders received his secondary education at the Mavo and Havo middle school and high school in Venlo. Reflecting passions that came to the fore later in his career, Wilders took a course in health insurance at the Stichting Opleiding Sociale Verzekeringen in Amsterdam and earned several law certificates at the Dutch Open University.

Wilders' goal after he graduated from secondary school was to see the world. Because he did not have enough money to travel to Australia, his preferred destination, he went to Israel instead^[33] and volunteered for a year moshav Tomer on the West Bank.^[34] With the money he saved, he travelled to the neighbouring Arab countries, and was moved by the lack of democracy in the region, due to the conflicts at the time. When he returned to the Netherlands, he retained Israeli ideas about counter-terrorism and a "special feeling of solidarity" for the country.^[35]

Living in Utrecht, Wilders initially worked in the health insurance industry. His interest in the subject led him into politics as a speech-writer for the Netherlands' People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.^[33][36] He started his formal political career as a parliamentary assistant to the party leader Frits Bolkestein, specialising in foreign policy. He held this job from 1990 to 1998. During this time Geert Wilders travelled extensively,^[37] visiting countries all across the Middle East, including Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Israel. Bolkestein was the first Dutch politician to address the consequences of mass immigration for Dutch society, including a sharp criticism of Muslim immigrants. He set an example for Wilders not only in his ideas but also in his confrontational speaking style.^[33][37] Political analyst Anno Bunnik later described Wilders as a "sorcerer's apprentice" to Bolkestein.^[38]

Personal life

On 10 November 2004, two suspected attackers were captured after an hour-long siege of a building in The Hague. They were in possession of three grenades and were accused of planning to murder Wilders as well as a fellow MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.^[39] The suspects were presumed to be members of what the Dutch intelligence agency, the General Intelligence and Security Service, has termed the Hofstad Network (Hofstadgroep). Since this incident Wilders has been under constant security protection because of frequent threats to his life.^[40] In September 2007, a Dutch woman was sentenced to a one-year prison term for sending more than 100 threatening emails to Wilders.^[41][42] In 2009, a rapper from Rotterdam was sentenced to 80 hours community service and a two-month suspended jail term for threatening Wilders in a rap song.^[43] Wilders was listed as the most threatened politician in the Netherlands in 2008.^[44]

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-steve-bannon-destroy-eu-european-union-214889

...Bannon was an executive at Breitbart News, an activist-editor-gadfly known mostly on the far right, and the “Brexit” campaign was something of a pet project. He hitched onto the Tea Party movement early in Barack Obama’s presidency and noticed a similar right-populist wave rising across the Atlantic, where fed-up rural, white Britons were anxious about immigration and resentful of EU bureaucrats. The cause touched on some of Bannon’s deepest beliefs, including nationalism, Judeo-Christian identity and the evils of Big Government.

In early 2014, Bannon launched a London outpost of Breitbart, opening what he called a new front “in our current cultural and political war.” The site promptly began pointing its knives at the EU, with headlines like “The EU Is Dead, It Just Refuses to Lie Down”; “The European Union’s Response to Terrorism Is a Massive Privacy Power Grab”; “Pressure on Member States to Embrace Trans Ideology.” One 2014 article invited readers to vote in a poll among “the most annoying European Union rules.”

Bannon’s site quickly became tightly entangled with the United Kingdom Independence Party, a fringe movement with the then-outlandish goal of Britain’s exit from the EU. In October 2014, UKIP’s leader, Nigel Farage, poached a Breitbart London editor to work for him. That September, Bannon hosted a dinner for Farage at his Capitol Hill townhouse. Standing under a large oil painting by the fireplace, Farage delivered a speech that left the dozens of conservative leaders in attendance “blown away,” as Bannon later recalled.

On June 23 of last year, Britons defied the pleas of Europe’s political elites and narrowly voted for Brexit. Many observers called it the most traumatic event in the history of a union whose origins date to the 1950s. Suddenly the future of all Europe, whose unity America had spent the decades since World War II cultivating, lay in doubt. It was the next day that Bannon hosted Farage for a triumphal edition of his daily radio show.

“The European Union project has failed,” Farage declared. “It is doomed, I’m pleased to say.”

“It’s a great accomplishment,” Bannon said. “Congratulations.”...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/geert-wilders-the-netherlands

On a chilly evening in late February, a small group of queer and immigrant activists gathered on the west side of Amsterdam to prepare, as one attendee put it, “for the apocalypse.”

For months they had endured an increasingly strident debate about immigration ahead of elections on March 15, and they were tired of being caught in the crossfire. The race has been dominated byGeert Wilders, the bleached-blonde leader of the Party for Freedom who polls show could win the largest bloc of votes in parliament. His candidacy is being watched as the next test of the nationalist wave that drove Britain out of the EU and put Donald Trump in the White House.

But the race is also uniquely focused on gay rights, because Wilders has framed his crusade against Islam in part as a defense of national values in the country proud to have adopted the world’s first marriage equality law and has remained a leader on LGBT rights in the years since. And several more moderate politicians have echoed the message that Muslim immigrants threaten gay people.

“If you’re looking for a dramatic shift, I think it’s already happening,” said Manju Reijmer, a 27-year-old born in Sri Lanka who was adopted by a family from a small Dutch town. A 29-year-old named Abdi, who was born in Somalia and fled the country’s war in 1991, said this focus on gay rights is just one of the constantly changing “rules of integration” into Dutch society, which makes it feel “impossible to integrate into a society that does not accept your humanity as a person of color.” (Abdi asked to withhold his last name because he hasn’t come out to his entire family.)

Wilders’s professed support of gay rights once put him out of step with other nationalist politicians in the West, who generally have also been social conservatives. But today Wilders seems like he was just ahead of his time, with politicians from Donald Trump to France’s Marine Le Pen following his lead and saying they are defending LGBT rights by opposing Muslim immigration.

For many in the room, this is just racism dressed up in liberal drag, helping make nationalism respectable again in the West.

Immigrants are constantly being subjected to a “pink test,” said Dino Suhonic, founder of the queer Muslim organization Maruf and organizer of the evening’s gathering. Politicians are “using gay rights, as almost a [trait of] national identity,” Suhonic said, but only when debating the place of “asylum-seekers and the immigrants.” It’s an attitude Suhonic calls “homonationalism.”

“The freedom that gay people should have — to kiss each other, to marry, to have children — is exactly what Islam is fighting against,” Wilders told BuzzFeed News last June in the wake of the attack on a gay club in Orlando, adding that the shooting should force a reckoning with the fact “that we’ve imported so much Islam to the Western free countries.” The next month, he brought this message to the Republican National Convention, where he told a Gays for Trump party, “Anywhere in the West, if you allow Islam to be planted on your soil, don’t be [surprised] that you will harvest Sharia law, because Islam and Sharia law [are] exactly the same.”

This includes the current prime minister, Mark Rutte, of the right-leaning VVD party, who framed his re-election bid with a letter published in January declaring, “We are feeling a growing unease when people abuse our freedom … [People who] harass gays, howl at women in short skirts or accuse ordinary Dutch of being racists … If you reject our country in such a fundamental manner, I’d rather see you leave.” He ended with an ultimatum to immigrants that has become a VVD campaign slogan: “Act normal or leave.”Wilders stands almost no chance of becoming prime minister even if he makes a strong showing, and polls suggest his support is declining as election day approaches. He now stands to win about 15% of seats in parliament, but all six other major parties have declared they will not join his Freedom Party in a governing coalition. But he has already won a major victory regardless of the election outcome: setting the terms of the debate about immigration in the Netherlands so fundamentally that other Dutch politicians are picking up his message.

Tofik Dibi, a gay man who is the son of Moroccan immigrants who was a member of the Dutch parliament from 2006 to 2012, often went toe to toe with Wilders on the floor of parliament. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Dibi said anti-LGBT attitudes are a real problem in some immigrant communities, and the issue needs to be confronted. But many of the politicians who are using it to sound the alarm over immigration, he said, “don’t give a fuck about gay rights.”

As Dibi sees it, immigration opponents use the issue as just another reason to suggest immigrants can’t ever be fully Dutch. Dibi said they are also suspicious of immigrant attitudes toward Jews and women, but homosexuality was usually their go-to issue.

“Of all of these tests, the gay rights is the one that is used the most because they know that that’s the most difficult thing within these communities,” Dibi said. In the battle over immigration, “LGBT rights are being used as a weapon.”

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Why Dutch Far-Right Extremist Geert Wilders Has Come to Cleveland to Cheer On Donald Trump

Making the rounds at the Republican National Convention, the virulent critic of Islam embraces the Republican nominee’s message and candidacy.

By John Nichols

JULY 20, 2016

Geert Wilders at the RNC

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders on the second day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 19, 2016. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)

Cleveland—Former New Hampshire US Senator Gordon Humphrey had some strong words for the supporters of Donald Trump who have repeatedly blocked efforts to open up the debate—about the nominating process and their controversial candidate—at this week’s Republican National Convention.

“I sought to be recognized to raise a point of parliamentary inquiry and was immediately drowned out by people I would refer to as brownshirts,” said Humphrey, who is a member of the New Hampshire delegation to the convention.

“This is pretty shocking and shameful. I’ve seen a lot, but this is not a meeting of the Republican National Committee. This is a meeting of brownshirts,” continued the veteran conservative, who, The Boston Globe noted, was “likening the GOP convention leaders to the paramilitary wing of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.”

Humphrey’s comments created an embarrassing stir after he made them in an interview with MSNBC.

"I wish we had political leaders like this..." -- Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders on Donald Trump

As Republicans attempt to “turn the page” on a divisive primary campaign and focus on Trump’s fall presidential bid, they do not need their nominee’s name to be associated with European extremists of the past, or of the present. Yet references to Trump as a “neo-fascist,” and to his campaign as an American expression of contemporary European far-right extremism, keep coming up.

Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who exposed the excesses of Richard Nixon, refers to Trump as “a neo-fascist in the sense of his appeal and methodology that has to do with authoritarianism nativism and [the] incitement which we’re seeing now.” Trump’s campaign, argues Bernstein, has invited “a debate, a historical debate about what fascism was and is and how Donald Trump fits into that picture”—a debate that the author suggests could include a discussion of “authoritarianism,” “despotism,” and “the desire for a strong man who doesn’t trust the institutions of democracy and government.”

Writing on Trump’s candidacy, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos observed almost a year ago that

When Trump leaped to the head of the Republican field, he delivered the appearance of legitimacy to a moral vision once confined to the fevered fringe, elevating fantasies from the message boards and campgrounds to the center stage of American life. In doing so, he pulled America into a current that is coursing through other Western democracies—Britain, France, Spain, Greece, Scandinavia—where xenophobic, nationalist parties have emerged since the 2008 economic crisis to besiege middle-ground politicians. In country after country, voters beset by inequality and scarcity have reached past the sober promises of the center-left and the center-right to the spectre of a transcendent solution, no matter how cruel.

As it happens, Europe’s far-right extremists recognize the connection.

Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders—whom London’s Daily Mail newspaper has referred to as “the latest and most extreme face of anti-Islamic sentiment to claim leadership of the growing political far-Right in Holland”—is especially excited that Republicans have nominated Trump. “I wish we had political leaders like this in the Netherlands who defend their own country…. and forget the rest,” declares Wilders.

How enthusiastic is the politician who, The Guardian observes, has been “accused of inciting racial hatred after pledging last year to ensure there will be ‘fewer Moroccans’ in the Netherlands,” about Donald Trump’s nomination? So excited that he has traveled to Cleveland to attend the Republican National Convention, where he has appeared frequently on the floor—as a guest of a Tennessee Trump delegate, State Senator Bill Ketron, who says Wilders approached him about attending. (Ketron, an early champion of Trump’s candidacy, says he traveled to Europe and met with the Dutch politician to discuss immigration issues several years ago. The state senator hails Wilders for “sounding alarms” about radical Islam and has told Tennessee media “he speaks his mind…and I agree with his philosophy.”)

That Wilders is excited by the Trump campaign will not come as much of a surprise to those who have heard the Dutch politician (who delights in suggesting that he will be his country’s next prime minister) rant about immigration and spell out his desire to “make sure when it comes to the immigration from Islamic countries that there will be a full stop.”

Since arriving in Cleveland, Wilders has been tweeting and retweeting pictures of himself with top Republicans, such as Tennessee Senator Bob Corker and Iowa Congressman Steve King (under a Twitter account banner that reads “De-Islamicize”). He spoke to a “Twinks for Trump” gathering of the nominee’s LGBTQ backers. And he has been talking up Trump with Dutch and American media.

“In America you see the same happening as in the Netherlands. The hard working people, what they call the blue collar workers here, no longer feel represented by the political elite. That people no longer want the policy of open borders, immigration and Islamization,” he told Holland’s Telegraaf newspaper.

On the floor of the convention, Wilders (who is instantly recognized in Europe) has been a bit of a curiosity. There are definitely delegates who recognize him—and want their pictures taken with the tall platinum-blond politician. But Wilders has also been taking in the spectacle, snapping photos of the convention and tweeting them with enthusiastic statements (“Great to be here!”) and Trump’s hashtag “#MakeAmericaGreatAgain”

Wilders was even started to sound like Trump. Celebrating with the Republican nominee’s backers in Cleveland, he complained, “We have no real leaders in the Western world any more. We have appeasers—we have Chamberlains instead of Churchills ruling our countries.”

That, says Geert Wilders, is why he wishes there were more political leaders like Donald Trump.

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