This shift has never happened ever before.

Yet here is the evidence that it has:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/netherlands-pm-mark-rutte-dutch-citizens-open-letter-pvv

Mr. Rutte is trying to ape the thinking and ways of Geert Wilders on immigration in Holland.

I fear his brazen stance will be seen to be for what it really is. People on the whole are not stupid.

Yet the US did vote G. W. Bush in for a second term. THAT was one of the great incredibles of all time.