Skinny male malaise continues
Rob Jetten wants to work with ‘new energy for the Netherlands’. A reference to his climate ideals, but also a break with the previous leadership: that of Sigrid Kaag. Jetten did that last time when he succeeded Alexander Pechtold as party chairman. Then Jetten said: “We are now coming from 12.5 years of Pechtold. I don’t know any better than that Pechtold is leader of D66. He has built the party into what it is now. But it is no longer necessarily about Pechtold.” The queen is dead, long live the king, that work. In ideal circumstances, a leadership change is accompanied by the prospect of a horizon of hope and optimism. That damn Twitter is a good indicator for that. An example: “Shall I post a normal reaction instead of all that shit under your tweet? D66 is obviously not my party, but I wish you good luck with the campaign.” Look, that’s how you congratulate someone who has just decided that he wants to lead his party. Sender: Sjors Nightingale, Member of Parliament for the PVV in Utrecht. Jetten can count on more fans. Just look at this conversation between a noble SP member, a filmmaker active in the VrijLinks movement and the parliamentary group leader of JA21 in the senate (who Jetten immediately labeled as a lust object, how dare you?). Unfortunately, there is always someone who has to ruin the party.
Meet Marietje Schaake. Was once in the European Parliament for D66, now does things that D66’ers do who have been in the European Parliament.
It’s the Skinny Males malaise. While political opponents wish Jetten good luck and praise his humour, curiosity and desirable appearance, a prominent D66 member stomps through the momentum with a crazy anecdote about a sick child of an anonymous alderman. Just like with Kaag, the leader apparently has to be canonized beforehand (and we know how that turned out). What the team around Jetten also seems to have adopted is that a victim card must be played immediately.
This was inevitably reminiscent of the beginning of 2019 when Jetten, as brand new party chairman, held his first major performance in the country. After that Kerkdijk lecture, it turned out that Jetten actually wanted to say something else about gays and migrants. Those who had advised him to adjust his speech, he could later turn to Tom Staal, who gave him all the space he needed not even explain in four minutes.
It is to be hoped that Jetten throws out all those people (hi, Sjoerd Sjoerdsma) and starts with a clean slate because they eat energy.
Succes, Rob!
2023-07-16 10:13:51
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