Because the coverage in the US press of the Dutch government’s fall yesterday is somewhat lacking (@nytimes kind of gets it; @washingtonpost does not get it at all), here’s a summary of what happened: 🧵1/13 Mark Rutte’s conservative-liberal VVD party (roughly translates in American terms to “country club Republicans”) has been in charge of immigration policy for over 10 years, and (with interruptions) for numerous years before that. Despite being more or less exactly aware of 2/13