“Our new reality  . . .  consists of frequent rapes, stabbings, killings, murders, shootings, even beheadings. But let me be clear about one thing: This did not used to happen before. This is a newly imported problem.”

This might sound like the usual dark intonations we’d hear from Donald Trump, but these are the words of twenty-seven-year-old Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a rising far-right influencer from the Netherlands, a place where, despite her chilling rhetoric, rates of violent crime remain quite low. The unlikely similarities between her and an elderly American politician might make it sound as if European politics are increasingly resembling their US counterpart. But Vlaardingerbroek should really remind us that things in the Old World were never so different to begin with.