Additional points from Wikipedia:
"Baudet was born in Heemstede to a family of partial Walloon and Indonesian ancestry."
"Baudet is a eurosceptic and opposed to multiculturalism. Baudet is an advocate for a return to nation states. In 2014 he gave a speech at the Flemish nationalist event IJzerwake. He also spoke at several Vlaams Belang conferences. Baudet has stated that his conservative political convictions have been largely influenced by two events in his first year as a history undergraduate in Amsterdam: the September 11 attacks and the assassination of Pim Fortuyn."
"Baudet frequently speaks about the perceived existence of a "party cartel", in which the main ruling parties of the country divide power among themselves and conspire towards the same goals, despite claiming to be competitors. Baudet is not religious, but he is sympathetic with Christian values. In an interview, he called himself an "agnostic cultural Christian."
"Baudet is an adherent of the 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory, that suggests a calculated effort to destroy western culture by academic and intellectual means. This is supposedly achieved through multiculturalism, political correctness and tolerance towards homosexuality and trans-sexuality. Baudet accuses the European Union of being 'a Cultural Marxist project, with the aim of destroying European Civilization'."
I am amazed that it has taken this long for more western European countries to wake up to the invasions of their countries.
Let’s applaud this but let’s keep in mind that his win, though “first place” was actually only 14 percent of the national vote. That kind of “first place” win happens in the very fractured politics of the Netherlands with 32 different parties and 14 of them represented in the national government.
To govern the national government, Baudet will have to get a coalition of parties to join him into making a governing majority. If he were unable to get a large enough coalition, someone else would be asked to try.
The U.S. actually has a political fragmentation just as the Netherlands, but it has been submerged for most of U.S. history by, and within, just a few major parties.
Both the American “Conservatives” and “Liberals” are not uniform within those respective labels and have a spectrum of adherents with non-universal opinions on a range of subjects.
But somehow most Americans have been able to accept that their own preferred party is not “pure”, but merely comprises those they would agree with more often than disagree with.
While in the Netherlands each subgroup prefers to try to represent itself.
In a sarcastic quasi “religious” sense, you could call American politics more “catholic” and Netherlands politics more “protestant”. With the former preferring a more “universalist” approach and the later a more “independent” one.