Trump's Copy Cat Populist Loses Badly In Dutch Election

Europeans paid a lot of attention to the Dutch election to see how the populist candidate would perform after the election of The Donald in the US.  He did not benefit from the US election result.  In fact, he lost a lot of support.  He had won 15.5% of the vote in 2010; he won only 10.1% in this election.  That was part of the good news in the election.  The bad news is that the electorate in the Netherlands is more splintered.  The top three parties won 85% of the vote in 1986; they won only 45% of the vote in this election.  It will be much harder to govern a more divided nation.