37: Why the Dutch left lost the vote

The latest Dutch parliamentary election turned out to be an upsetting victory for the far right, while the Dutch left took a beating. Just this once we made an episode in English, to shed some light on last week’s election results and what it says about the Dutch political landscape in general. It’s time to drop our false (self-)image as a thoroughly progressive country.
Show Goats
- Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker's enlightening book about the foundational racism in Dutch culture, White Innocence (https://www.dukeupress.edu/white-innocence).
- Dutch blog Stuk Rood Vlees calculated the disparity of media attention between male and female candidates (https://stukroodvlees.nl/media-aandacht-voor-vrouwelijke-lijsttrekkers/) (in Dutch).
- In this article (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/03/15/what-happened-to-the-dutch-left/), Cas Mudde analyzes what happened to the Dutch left.
- Merijn Oudenampsen does the same here (https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/decline-of-the-dutch-left).
- For an outsider's perspective listen to the The Guardian podcast (https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/mar/15/scandal-riots-and-the-dutch-election) on our elections.
- Joost de Vries wrote an article on Thierry Baudet (https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/covid-derailed-great-hope-dutch-far-right-thierry-baudet) for The Guardian.
- Enjoy this piece on the Black-led BIJ1 Party (https://dwellerforever.blog/2021/03/12/how-the-black-led-bij1-party-in-the-netherlands-is-making-waves-in-the-upcoming-election/): the last hope for Leftists in the Netherlands:
- Jouke Huijzer wrote about the meaning of Mark Rutte (https://www.eurozine.com/the-meaning-of-mark-rutte/).
- Suzanne van Geuns, previously a guest on our podcast, wrote on the Dutch investment in whiteness (https://religiondispatches.org/blasphemy-in-the-netherlands-white-norms-and-black-pete/).
- TL;DR: a tweet that answers all possible questions you might have about Dutch politics https://twitter.com/CasMudde/status/1372182715366248452

The latest Dutch parliamentary election turned out to be an upsetting victory for the far right, while the Dutch left took a beating. Just this once we made an episode in English, to shed some light on last week’s election results and what it says about the Dutch political landscape in general. It’s time to drop our false (self-)image as a thoroughly progressive country.

Show Goats

Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker's enlightening book about the foundational racism in Dutch culture, White Innocence.
Dutch blog Stuk Rood Vlees calculated the disparity of media attention between male and female candidates (in Dutch).
In this article, Cas Mudde analyzes what happened to the Dutch left.
Merijn Oudenampsen does the same here.
For an outsider's perspective listen to the The Guardian podcast on our elections.
Joost de Vries wrote an article on Thierry Baudet for The Guardian.
Enjoy this piece on the Black-led BIJ1 Party: the last hope for Leftists in the Netherlands:
Jouke Huijzer wrote about the meaning of Mark Rutte.
Suzanne van Geuns, previously a guest on our podcast, wrote on the Dutch investment in whiteness.
TL;DR: a tweet that answers all possible questions you might have about Dutch politics https://twitter.com/CasMudde/status/1372182715366248452