Historian Maarten van Rossum doesn't like conventional politeness but makes it clear what his point of view is and reasoning behind it.

He will not be vague or equivocate about the chaos left behind by an outgoing PM Mark Rutte with his permanent smile how easy it is to do politics in The Hague.

Rutte may not be an Orbán, the dictator, but it is never a good sign when someone stays on far too long, like Netanyahu, and a country just can't rid itself from such a figure as a nation sinks in destruction mode. Of course Dilan Yesilgöz in her speech at the VVD party Congress says it's time for change. The nation was very well fed-up with nearly two decades of Mark Rutte and his VVD.

And she follows up by repeating all the old conservative policy rhetoric of smaller government, less regulations, more room for entrepreneurs and self initiatives in the economy. Yesilgöz most likely ends up quite similar to UK's Liz Truss ... speaking at a level distant from reality in people's lives. She has no policy that would touch the lives of the middle class in a positive way.

De fascist right-wing rag newspaper De Telegraaf situated in Amsterdam writes the fictional headline with no shame ...

VVD leader Yesilgöz wants to break with the past and stand up for 'large silent majority'

Everyone knows the VVD is rightwing with same electorate as Geert Wilders. Yesilgöz wants to govern with Wildernis a next cabinet, so her advisors suggested go for the centrist electorate for the numbers ... the void left by poor performance of Christian Democrats (CDA) and the liberals D'66 who have reigned with Mark Rutte.

The voters have punished both the CDA and D'66 for joining once again in a Rutte IV after the collapse of Rutte III and most parliamentarians were done with the irritating and presidential cloak of VVD leader Mark Rutte.

The large "silent majority" are a protest vote and have voted this Spring for the farmers coalition BBB and will now move to new party of Pieter Omtzigt. He has a broad base across the country, some accent on farming community, he lives in Overijssel, and has been a thorn in Rutte's side for many years.

Hasbara is a dead language