WILL no one stand up for the Dutch cosmopolitan elite? For many observers of this week's election in the Netherlands there was only one story: the fate of Geert Wilders, the bottle-blond nativist who wants to ban the Koran and exit the European Union. Rare was the bar in Limburg, Mr Wilders's home province, left unmolested by journalists expecting Dutch voters to deliver a populist hat-trick, following the triumphs of Brexit and Donald Trump. The young, educated urbanites of Amsterdam's Canal District or Haarlem barely got a look-in. And yet in an election with many subplots, theirs was among the more arresting.
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