Il Ne Maintiendra Pas

And so Geert Wilders goes after the monarchy. Are you starting to see the point now? The idea of Wilders, heir to the mantle of Pim Fortuyn, as the defender of Old Europe is perfectly preposterous. His real targets are things like the Dutch monarchy. Things, in other words, like the Orthodox Calvinist "pillar", now as numerous in terms of churchgoers as the Dutch Reformed Church from which it seceded in the nineteenth century and which once outnumbered it by six to one. And things like the Catholic Church.