Many conservatives in Europe seem to have forgotten the lesson of 1930s Germany. They sacrifice their principles on the altar of the polls and all-too-often try to overtake rightwing radicals on their own pet subjects like security or migration.
“The winds of change are here!” declared a jubilant Viktor Orban after Geert Wilders’ shock landslide triumph in the Dutch general election. The Hungarian prime minister was not the only Eurosceptic leader to congratulate Wilders on his campaign for “zero asylum seekers” and closed borders.
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