Can an anti-Wilders front be developed in the Netherlands?

The daily wonders about the pertinence of the appeal made last week in the Netherlands by Doekle Terpstra, former trade unionist and member of the Christian Democrat party against Geert Wilders, the populist leader of the Party for Freedom. "Doekle Terpstra has appealed 'unions, bosses, Muslims, churches, humanists and other groups and institutions' to form a united front against Geert Wilders' nasty message. But even if many of these organisations have little sympathy for Wilder's ideas, Terpstra will have to do a lot more lobbying before they join forces with him. Most have indeed been shocked by the personal offensive launched by Terpstra against Wilders, referring for example about the 'Wilderisation of society' ... The most likely scenario will involve the exacerbation of polarisation."

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