Dutch politics is like a regional third division Saturday amateur football league compared to geopolitics or even US domestic affairs - which is like the Champions League. Furthermore in the light of the ever expanding EU hydra it is of ever less importance to even Dutch nationals.
In general Wilders' electoral victory can be somewhat compared to Trump's 2016 win. There is a similar sense of frustration and disenfranchisement with the ruling political elite - from whatever color or stripe they may be. They are the 'The Cartel' as Baudet calls them. Wilders 38 seats are stunning, especially because the 'right wing' has been saturated with many other options.
In The Netherlands there is a never ending stream of crises - many manufactured but not all. The refugee crisis, the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, the crime crisis, etc. It has resulted in the middle class is getting hollowed out, healthcare worsening yet ballooning in costs, cost of living exploding, some of the world's highest taxes, constant governmental overreach and a growing feeling that the country is losing its traditions, culture and sovereignty.
Nevertheless it's interesting to see how things work. Because like elsewhere there is friction, struggles and confrontation in the upper echelons. The EU apparatchiks are not happy with Wilders' electoral win and the strong EU aligned parties are already moving to position themselves in such a way that there will be 1. a coalition that excludes the PVV (cordon sanitaire) or 2. an impasse which will then lead to new elections.
Text above is in Dutch. It was originally posted on LinkedIn. It says that both the D66(6) and VVD (the heart of The Cartel) are part of Renew Europe, which is a radical pro integrationist EU party where many of the current EU frontmen (Verhofstadt for instance) are part of. They don't want a strong EU critical party leading The Netherlands, so it won't happen. Basically affirmation of the good cop - bad cop dialectic. One pretends to be liberal conservative (VVD) and the other liberal socialist (D66).
The good thing about all of this is that it exposes the facade that is representative democracy. Even if Wilders does become prime minister he won't get anything done due to the Court system, legally binding EU treaties/laws and opposition from the Deep State/EU. And if he doesn't become prime Minister it will expose the VVD/ The Cartel as hypocritical anti-democrats that defecate on the electorate. 87 percent of the VVD voters wants to enter a coalition with Wilders.