Chapter 56: Dutch First

225      “great movement across the world”  Marine Le Pen quoted in Angelique Chrisafis, “Marine Le Pen Says Trump’s Victory Marks ‘Great Movement Across World,’” The Guardian, November 9, 2016, www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/marine-le-pen-says-trumps-victory-marks-great-movement-across-world.

225      “made possible what had previously . . .”  Marine Le Pen quoted in “Marine Le Pen: Trump Win Boosts My Chances,” BBC News, November 13, 2016, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37964776.

225      “Today the USA joined the UK . . .”  Winston Peters, “Today the USA joined the UK in sending the establishment a message . . . ,” Facebook, November 8, 2016, www.facebook.com/winstonpeters/posts/1662655253760595, archived at Wayback Machine, February 10, 2026 capture, web.archive.org/web/20260210161653/https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwinstonpeters%2Fposts%2F1662655253760595.

225      “This night changes the USA, Europe and the world!”  Frauke Petry quoted in Daniel A. Gross, “Trump’s Win: The View from Berlin,” The World, November 9, 2016, theworld.org/stories/2016/11/09/trumps-win-view-berlin.

225      “Yesterday, in the biggest democracy on earth . . .”  Geert Wilders, “Geert Wilders for Breitbart: The Second American Revolution Has Come,” Breitbart, November 9, 2016, www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/09/geert-wilders-for-breitbart-the-second-american-revolution-has-come.

225      “Now it is time for Europe . . .” Wilders, “Geert Wilders For Breitbart,” www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/09/geert-wilders-for-breitbart-the-second-american-revolution-has-come.

225      “With Donald Trump America began to realise . . .” Renaud Camus, You Will Not Replace Us!, (Plieux, France: Renaud Camus, 2018), 176. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1091051149.

225–226 increased their vote shares in the 2017 elections  Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte and José Rama, “When the US Far-Right Sneezes, the European Far-Right Catches a Cold: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Electoral Contagion from Spain,” Electoral Studies 76 (April 2022), www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379422000051, 1.

226     the electoral success  International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Election Guide, “Austrian National Council 2017 General,” October 15, 2017, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed February 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3026/.

226     ministries for the first time in its history  “Austrian Far-Right Freedom Party Dogged by Nazi Past,” France 24, www.france24.com/en/20190925-austrian-far-right-freedom-party-dogged-by-nazi-past.

226     accumulated the third-most seats  IFES Election Guide, “New Zealand House of Representatives 2017 General,” September 23, 2017, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed February 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3006/.

226     secured twenty-two seats in its first parliamentary elections  IFES Election Guide, “Czech Chamber of Deputies 2017 General,” October 20, 2017,” last updated June 21, 2024, accessed February 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3027/.

226     “We want to stop any Islamisation of the Czech Republic . . .”  Tomio Okamura quoted in Robert Muller and Jan Lopatka, “Far-Right Scores Surprise Success in Czech Election,” Reuters, October 21, 2017, www.reuters.com/article/world/far-right-scores-surprise-success-in-czech-election-idUSKBN1CQ0T3/.

226     former prime minister . . . founded . . . in 2017  Elías Þórsson, “The Seven Year Itch & The Coalition Of Contrasts,” Reykjavík Grapevine, November 1, 2024, grapevine.is/mag/feature/2024/11/01/the-seven-year-itch-the-coalition-of-contrasts/.

226     influenced . . . of European great replacement parties, namely  Dawid Aristotelis Fusiek and Cecilia Marconi, “Trumpism and the European Far Right: An Analysis of Trumpism’s Impact on the Post-2016 AfD, Lega Nord, and Fidesz,” Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne 4 (2021), repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/bf437630-9337-458b-8042-951c46c08de8/content, 67–78.

226     signed . . . that blocked . . . from coming to the United States  “Trump’s Executive Order: Who Does Travel Ban Affect??” BBC News, February 10, 2017, www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38781302; and Fusiek and Marconi, “Trumpism and the European Far Right: An Analysis of Trumpism’s Impact on the Post-2016 AfD, Lega Nord, and Fidesz,” repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/bf437630-9337-458b-8042-951c46c08de8/content, 71.

226     “In many European states, where animosity against Muslim migrants . . .”  Fusiek and Marconi, “Trumpism and the European Far Right: An Analysis of Trumpism’s Impact on the Post-2016 AfD, Lega Nord, and Fidesz,” repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/bf437630-9337-458b-8042-951c46c08de8/content, 71.

226     “VOTE PVV” The poster, which read “STEM PVV” (VOTE PVV), can be seen behind Wilders in the video at the top of Matthias Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place’: Geert Wilders Claims Victory for PVV,” VRT NWS, November 22, 2023, www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak, via Google Translate.

227      “Thirty-five seats!” . . . “The largest party in the Netherlands!” Geert Wilders quoted in Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place,’” www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak.

227      “I tell you . . . has spoken tonight” Wilders quoted in Verstraete, “‘We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place,’” www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak.

227      “The voter has said . . .”  Wilders quoted in Verstraete, We Will Ensure That the Dutch Are Back in First Place,’” www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/11/22/geert-wilders-overwinningstoespraak.