Conservative thought once stood for skeptical thinking about the human condition, for the realization that existence can only be regulated to a limited extent. So why are conservatives now selling their souls to the fires of the radical right?
With the emergence of Forum for Democracy Netherlands has since times again a real conservative party. What surprises many, that this conservatism seems to have more to urge revolution than with conservatism. But radicalism is not unusual in the conservative tradition.
The storm inside Forum for Democracy just does not lie. A planned agreement between the party and three leading critics within FVD is Thursday called off at the last moment by Thierry Baudet. The party leader has seen now let the dissidents know nothing in reconciliation, as appears from an internal mail that is owned by the Times.
Historian Frank Ankersmit living in Glimmen Forum for Democracy has turned back. He did so after the party congress in late November in Amsterdam.
In Den Haag Clingendael is organizing a symposium on the occasion of the publication of a book on populism. Called Forum voor Democratie zijn Frank Ankersmit en Thierry Baudet booked here as speakers.
A meeting in Groningen with a debate on the ideas of Forum voor Democratie. The party leaders speak here Frank Ankersmit en Thierry Baudet.