In rich, low crime Netherlands, why is anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders so popular?
The economy is up, unemployment is down and some Dutch prisons are so empty the Government has been renting out cells.
"It's not the economy, stupid," Professor Gerrit Voerman of the University of Groningen said, tweaking the campaign message Bill Clinton used in his successful 1992 march to the White House.
Instead, Professor Voerman said, "It's about identity."
Mr Wilders' campaign slogan sums it up: "The Netherlands ours again!"
The nationalist refrain, which echoes US President Donald Trump's campaign call to Make America Great Again, is a theme that could dominate elections in two other European nations this year — France and Germany.
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