Taking flight

摘要

"THE OWL of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk," announced Thierry Baudet, leader of the Netherlands' new Forum for Democracy (FVD) party, after the country's provincial elections on March 20th. The two-year-old FVD had just shocked the establishment, winning the most votes of any party nation-wide and becoming the largest in several provincial legislatures. Dutch voters whose Hegel was shaky turned to Google to work out what the Eurosceptic, climate-change-sceptic foe of immigration was on about, and concluded that he was proclaiming the election a dialectical shift in Dutch history.