Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, the nation’s leading critic of mass Islamic immigration, was also quick to speak out, calling the rioters “idiots.”Yes, violence is terrible. After the election, Wilders proclaimed his intention to become Prime Minister. But the government collapsed less than a year later, after Wilders, unable to get his coalition partners to budge significantly on any of his issues, pulled his party out of the coalition. “Wilders is a toddler and now we all have to clean up his mess,” said one of de Vries’s interviewees, an Amsterdam barista. But Wilders – thank goodness – hasn’t backed off an inch from his supposedly radical agenda.