May 8
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Rod Dreher in the NRO has written one of the best pieces on Fortuyn’s murder yet. It is simply called Murder in Holland and is a very coherent examination of the murder, the press’ treatment of Fortuyn, and its aftermath in Holland. The murder has implications for the rest of Europe, which will no doubt be ignored by the Euro-elite.
This is second murder of a right-of-centre free market/libertarian leading figure in the last year. Some commentators have wondered whether the left, who ideas are now mostly discredited, are beginning to use the tactics of the far-right in the early-30s. If the left are so threatened by men like Fortuyn that they need to kill him, surely it shows they are in decline? How many murders will it take before the Euro-elites start caring about the trend? Will the Dutch reaction, across the political spectrum, to this make any difference in Brussels? I doubt it, but one never knows.
Matthew Kaminski weighs in on the murder as well.
