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2016-04-26 Europe

Austrian far-right triumphs in presidential vote with 36%

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Far right?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-26 02:49|| 2016-04-26 02:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Three kinds of people -

1. The vast majority of normal, liberal, progressive, regular folks
2. Far right wackos
3. Hitler

So I guess that puts Stalin in group #1.

Posted by Bobby 2016-04-26 13:45|| 2016-04-26 13:45|| Front Page Top

#3 They used to be Haider's party, before he pulled a Sharon and decamped along with his cronies in government to found a new party. When Haider was in charge, they played footsie with the League of the North and were characterized as neo-fascist by the international press, but even when they had Haider and his "hey, at least the Nazis had full employment" bullshit, it was still a libertarian-ish sort of "European liberal" party.

I think "Far right" in this context doesn't mean much more than Euroskeptic and anti-open-borders.

Posted by Mitch H. 2016-04-26 14:01|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2016-04-26 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Far right in the European sense of not being left of center. Like National Socialism, for example.

Posted by SteveS 2016-04-26 14:03|| 2016-04-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 When this guy was elected to the Austrian Parliament, he wore a cornflower.

Sounds innocent, right?

Well, in the early 1930s, when the Nazi party was illegal in Austria, clandestine members of the Nazi party wore a cornflower in lieu of the illegal swastika.

Posted by European Conservative 2016-04-26 20:30|| 2016-04-26 20:30|| Front Page Top

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