So much for 'Dutch Trump'

The Netherlands have opted out of the populist revolution that many had perceived in Britons’ choice to exit the European Union last year and in the November election of Donald Trump. Perhaps people should be asking whether the perception wasn’t a mistake to begin with.

The Freedom Party of Geert Wilders appears to have won only 13 percent of the vote and only 19 out of 150 seats in yesterday’s elections, putting it in a three-way tie for second place in the Netherlands House of Representatives with the Christian Democratic and Democrats ’66 parties.