Crisis management as anti-politics in the Netherlands

How the Dutch gov't uses emergencies--epidemic, climate change, war--to create a new people

The Covid epidemic in Europe has been treated mostly as a problem for administration to solve in increasingly despotic ways. I have written three previous reports on how the Dutch gov’t under Prime Minister Mark Rutte is attempting to overcome political dissent & get rid of political opposition altogether (here, here, & here). The distinction between st…