Geschichte Mitteldeutschland 2.0 » What went wrong in the Dutch Republic?

It seems to me, as it did to Spinoza and many other liberals of the time, that the 17th century Dutch Republic was almost a Utopia for that era, an oasis of personal liberty and tolerance in a desert of oppressive absolute monarchies. Yet the guiding lights of that Republic, Jan and Cornelius De Witt, were horribly butchered (literally) by a frenzied populace, a dire episode which recalls the cruel, senseless murder of Hypatia the Philosopher. Why should the (normally) mild-mannered, peace-loving Dutch have gone mad one day and taken out their wrath on the fathers of the Republic? Why would they have chosen the reactionary William of Orange to lead them, over the enlightened De Witt brothers? I know that there was a pretext to the effect that the De Witts had mismanaged a war, but is that justification for tearing them both asunder in public streets and overturning the Dutch Republic?


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