WE live in a time when hate can be advertising. If you yell your disgust, fury and impatience at a group of people—and that yell is loud enough—you will get mass attention. You might even get support.

Geert Wilders knows this only too well.

This 44-year-old Dutch politician is a fitting figure for these sad times. Whenever he curses immigrants—the “non-native” Muslims living in Holland—there he is, immediately soaring like a red bal