In a way, Santorum’s canards must come as a relief to a country that has increasingly been in the news for outrageous statements by right-wing populists about Muslims and Greeks. Indeed, Santorum’s view of the Netherlands as a kind of progressive dystopia has a slightly old-fashioned ring to it nowadays.
在某种程度上，桑托勒姆的谬论对美国这个新闻频道中日益充斥着右翼民粹主义分子反穆斯林反希腊夸张言论的国家来说可算是温和的了。 而他将荷兰视为一个人间地狱般的发达国家（dystopia）的言论其实也有点跟不上潮流了。