Thierry Baudet

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Thierry Baudet

Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet (born January 28, 1983 in Heemstede ) is a Dutch author , historian , lawyer and founder of the “ Forum for Democracy ” party.

Life

Thierry Baudet was born in Heemstede as the son of a medium-sized family with Huguenot roots. He is a great-grandson of the mathematician Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet . Baudet attended a Montessori school in Haarlem from 1989 to 1995 and then from 1995 to 2001 the local grammar school. From 2001 he studied history at the University of Amsterdam and from 2002 at the same time law . In 2006 he completed both courses with the title Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws . Subsequently, Baudet taught legal philosophy at the University of Leiden from 2007 to 2012 and received his doctorate with a thesis on the meaning of the nation state. He rejects supranational institutions such as the European Union or international courts of law as corrupting. From 2010 to 2011, Baudet was visiting professor for political theory at the University of Deventer. From 2011 to 2012 he worked as a columnist for the NRC Handelsblad and expressed sharp criticism of the EU in his texts. In 2013, she worked at the humanities faculty at Tilburg University . Baudet is in a relationship with an Iranian woman and plays the piano as a pastime.

politics

In 2015 Thierry Baudet founded the “ Forum for Democracy ”, which was initially intended as a think tank . Six months before the general election on March 15, 2017, he converted the club into a party and received 1.8% of the vote in the election, which surprisingly allowed him and a party colleague to enter the Second Chamber of the Netherlands . Previously, he had already worked as a co-organizer of the referendum on the association agreement between the EU and Ukraine and voted no.

Thierry Baudet states that he was politically influenced by the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the murder of Theo van Gogh . Like Geert Wilders, he is considered a controversial figure and is assigned to the right-hand edge of the political spectrum. Wilders and Baudet are seen as competitors for the right-wing voter segment. Baudet said of Wilders and his party PVV : “I think that Wilders PVV is right on important points: for example, when it comes to ' controlling immigration ' or 'getting out of the EU'. I just think that Wilders overshoots the mark if he wants to ban the Koran or close mosques . It's just not realistic! ”. Unlike Wilders, Baudet wants to appeal to more educated classes, including students .

Baudet repeatedly hits the headlines with provocative statements that can be attributed to the New Right . In March 2017, for example, he declared that cultural self-hatred led to attempts at “homeopathic dilution of the Dutch people ” with people from all over the world, whereby the Dutch could eventually cease to exist. In response to media criticism, he replied that he was not interested in race but in culture . The historian Leo Lucassen accuses Baudet of having created a “coherent amalgam of right-wing ideas” that has “authoritarian traits” and shares “fundamental concepts” with the European New Right. Baudet mobilized these ideas and radicalized the public debate with them.

Baudet networks with international contacts from the right-wing and right-wing extremist spectrum. After moving into the Second Chamber, Baudet met in October 2017 for a lengthy discussion with the well-known racist Jared Taylor from the right-wing extremist American Alt-Right movement. In April 2018, a meeting between Baudet and the Russian right-wing extremist ideologist Alexander Dugin took place. Dugin was enthusiastic about the Dutchman, with whom he saw many similarities, and described him as a "ticket for the future". There is also evidence of several meetings between Baudet and the French right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen in France. The Dutch journalist Marijn Kruk, who made these meetings public, sees in Le Pen the actual ideological “godfather” of Baudet.

In August 2017, Baudet described the European Union as a “cultural Marxist project aimed at the destruction of European civilization.” He was then accused of using the term “cultural Marxism” , a “catchphrase from the Alt-Right scene”, which came from “an remembered the Nazi term “Judeobolshevism”. ”In October 2018, in a radio interview, he expressed his solidarity with the attacks by Hungarian President Viktor Orbán on the US billionaire George Soros and called for similar steps against the American in the Netherlands. He said: “I generally agree with what he (Viktor Orbán) does.” When asked about the repression of press freedom in Hungary, Baudet was not prepared to distance himself from Orbán. “I don't understand why I should say anything about it or distance myself from it,” replied Baudet.

His speech after the victory in the elections to the First Chamber in March 2019 had a "fascist character" in the eyes of some Dutch media. In it he used the right-wing ideological catchphrase of a “boreal world”, referring to fascist ideas of a “white Europe”. After the speech, critics accused him of “front soldier metaphors” and described Baudet and his party as “part of a neo-fascist political wave”. The political program of Baudet's party is "almost identical" to the program of the Dutch fascist Anton Mussert from the 1930s. In addition, "the rhetorical techniques of the two politicians are very similar."

Baudet presents himself in public as a vehement denier of the thesis of man-made climate change . He claims that there is “no consensus” among scientists about the causes of climate change and accuses his opponents, whom he describes as the “climate mafia,” with “known lies”. In January 2018, he had a heated argument with climate researcher Gerrit Hiemstra via the short message service Twitter , which was echoed in the Dutch media. Baudet wrote that there was "no increase in extreme weather", that "the climate was warming a lot less" "than predicted", that "more CO2 had an enormously positive influence on plant growth" and that "the smog in India had nothing to do with CO2 to do ”. Hiemstra stated that Baudet was completely clueless and had alleged four "untruths". Baudet then demanded Hiemstra's dismissal, but then deleted his tweet. Plans of Dutch politics to counteract the consequences of global warming or to take precautionary measures mocked Baudet as "masochistic heresy, secularized belief in floods, (...) a mania similar to the cult of the dead that once ravaged Easter Island ."

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/pays-bas-legislatives-thierry-baudet-un-wilders-version-cultivee
  2. ↑ a b c Thierry Baudet - the smart right man who overtakes Geert Wilders. Der Standard, April 19, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ [1] Генна Сосонко: Идиоты и политики [Genna Sosonko: Idiots and Politicians] (Russian), May 19, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Baudet's thoughts - connectable to the alt-right movement. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 21, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Baudet - Wilders was yesterday. Tagesschau, March 9, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c Is Dutch Bad Boy Thierry Baudet the New Face of the European Alt-Right? The Nation, April 5, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ze delen weinig, behalve een diepe afkeer van Europa on nrc.nl, 7th March 2016.
  8. ↑ a b c d Latin and piano, but no television. Deutschlandfunk, March 9, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ [2] 'Baudet sprak vijf uur met Amerikaanse racist Jared Taylor' [Baudet spoke for five hours with the American racist Jared Taylor] (Dutch), NOS.nl, December 20, 2017, accessed on May 21, 2019.
  10. ↑ [3] Right-Wing Competition, Jungle World, April 4, 2019, accessed May 21, 2019.
  11. ↑ [4] Hoe Thierry Baudet aan de lippen hung van Jean-Marie Le Pen [How Thierry Baudet hung on Jean-Marie Le Pen's lips] (Dutch), De Correspondent, February 19, 2018, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
  12. ↑ https://twitter.com/thierrybaudet/status/899162815176605696 ( Memento from April 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Twitter entry (Dutch), August 19, 2017, accessed on May 21, 2019.
  13. ^ [5] Thierry Baudet: A right-wing extremist for the economic elite in the Netherlands, Kontraste.at, April 17, 2019, accessed on May 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ [6] Baudet wil onderzoek naar invloed Soros in Nederland [Baudet wants to study the influence of Soros in the Netherlands] (Dutch), NPO Radio 1, October 1, 2018, accessed on May 21, 2019.
  15. ↑ [7] 'Fascistische en gevaarlijke' speech Baudet verbaast arabist Tilburg University: 'Waarom zegt hij dit?' ['Fascist and dangerous' speech by Baudet baffles Arabists from Tilburg University: 'Why does he say that?'] (Dutch), AD.nl, March 21, 2019, accessed on May 21, 2019.
  16. ↑ [8] Waarom Thierry Baudet een fascist is [Why Thierry Baudet is a fascist] (Dutch), Over de Muur, March 22, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019.
  17. ↑ a b [9] Two-ring boxing match between 'climate denier' Baudet and 'climate mafioso' Rotmans [boxing match between the 'climate denier' Baudet and the 'climate mafiosi' Rotmans] (English), Erasmus Magazine, April 12, 2019, accessed on May 27, 2019.
  18. ↑ [10] Het klimaat trekt zich niets aan van wat we 'vinden' [The climate doesn't care what we 'believe'] (Dutch), NRC.nl, January 12, 2018, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  19. ↑ [11] De opmerkelijkste overwinningsspeech in de Nederlandse politieke geschiedenis ontleed [The most remarkable victory speech in Dutch political history has been dissected] (Dutch), de Volkskrant, March 21, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Baudet, Thierry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudet, Thierry Henri Philippe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author, historian, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Heemstede , Netherlands