After it became clear Donald Trump was elected as the next president of the United States, the American SBG reporter Scott Thuman wants to find out how the populist vote might influence elections in Europe. The Dutch are the first European state that hold national elections on March 15, 2017.
Scott Thuman visits the Dutch parliament for an interview with Geert Wilders and his opposite MP Alexander Pechtold. Emeritus Professor of political science Meindert Fennema gives his views on Wilders and his political movement the Freedom Party (PVV).
Scott also visits the former fishers town Volendam where the PVV traditionally gets a lot of votes. In a community centre some elderly playing cards explain for what party they will vote and why.
For this production Featurez gave advice, did the research, setup and planning, booked rental cars and did the driving, accompanied the filming and did the Dutch interviews and translations.