Editing Hans Janmaat (section)

===Legacy===
Other parties erected a [[Cordon sanitaire (politics)|cordon sanitaire]] around Janmaat, ignoring him while he spoke in parliament.<ref name="ing"/> A [[taboo]] on discussing negative aspects of immigration existed in the Dutch political climate in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.vkblog.nl/bericht/257704/Moet_Janmaat_worden_gerehabiliteerd%3F | work= De Volkskrant | title= Moet Janmaat worden gerehabiliteerd? | access-date=  9 June 2010}}</ref>

[[Meindert Fennema]], Emeritus Professor of Political Theory of Ethnic Relations at the University of Amsterdam, argued in 2006 that Janmaat was convicted for statements that are now commonplace<ref name="Trouw"/> due to changes in the political climate (caused in part by the [[September 11 attacks]], and the assassinations of [[Pim Fortuyn]] and [[Theo van Gogh (film director)|Theo van Gogh]]).<ref name="vpro"/>

As the first public spokesperson who tried to put the topic of immigration on the Dutch political agenda, Janmaat has been mentioned as a forerunner of Pim Fortuyn, [[Geert Wilders]] and [[Thierry Baudet]] and their parties [[Leefbaar Nederland]], [[Partij voor de Vrijheid]] and [[Forum voor Democratie]], which booked greater electoral successes in the following decades.