Pro-Free Market, Pro-Gay Rights & Pro-Israel

Excerpt from Ed West, columnist & social commentator at the UK Daily Telegraph "The future of Right-wing politics – 'libertarian Islamophobes'" June 9:

Wilders is the philosemitic, pro-gay rights, free marketer usually referred to in the British media as “far-Right” for holding the outrageous opinion that the Dutch should not be a minority in their own country. But the BBC gave a better description this morning when they described him as a “libertarian Islamophobe”.

That is true enough, for Wilders is part of an interesting trend in European politics towards socially liberal ethnic nationalists...

in Europe in general and in the Netherlands in particular, where the anti-immigration movement has become increasingly socially liberal. This might have been an inevitable result of a liberal, tolerant and/or (delete as applicable) depraved and rather sex-mad continent importing immigrants from the most puritanical parts of the world...