[Native Netherlander Pieter Dorsman of Peaktalk looks at the recent traffic patterns of Dutch politics and finds jams, backups, wrecks and no real right turn in the offing. —- Editor ]

It was in the beginning of this year that The New Republic jumped on the bandwagon of classifying everything that happened in The Netherlands since the Fortuyn and Van Gogh murders as solid evidence of the small nation abandoning its left-liberal tolerance and ‘turning right’.