Tommy Vitor

I think in Austria, there was a knife attack where there's asylum seekers, Syrian or Afghans, who are attacking and murdering people, almost as if their actions are designed in a lab to boost the far right.

Yeah. So, I mean, this election's on Sunday. We'll obviously cover it next week. I mean, you know, maybe this will be okay. It'll be the Grand Coalition, which is the CDU and the SPD. Maybe combined, though, those two parties don't get to 50%, and they can't form a coalition, and they have to bring in another third party.

Yeah. So, I mean, this election's on Sunday. We'll obviously cover it next week. I mean, you know, maybe this will be okay. It'll be the Grand Coalition, which is the CDU and the SPD. Maybe combined, though, those two parties don't get to 50%, and they can't form a coalition, and they have to bring in another third party.

Yeah. So, I mean, this election's on Sunday. We'll obviously cover it next week. I mean, you know, maybe this will be okay. It'll be the Grand Coalition, which is the CDU and the SPD. Maybe combined, though, those two parties don't get to 50%, and they can't form a coalition, and they have to bring in another third party.

Maybe it's the Green Party, which, you know, kind of sounds fine on paper, but in practice, they just can't agree on anything. So you have an unworkable government, and I think the government kind of failing like that or dissolving again... will often boost the far right.

Maybe it's the Green Party, which, you know, kind of sounds fine on paper, but in practice, they just can't agree on anything. So you have an unworkable government, and I think the government kind of failing like that or dissolving again... will often boost the far right.

Maybe it's the Green Party, which, you know, kind of sounds fine on paper, but in practice, they just can't agree on anything. So you have an unworkable government, and I think the government kind of failing like that or dissolving again... will often boost the far right.

So this is a very important election, one to watch, and it really sucks that our own vice president is making it worse for all of Europe. Quick update, Ben, just from neighboring Austria, because we're talking about neo-Nazis so much today.

So this is a very important election, one to watch, and it really sucks that our own vice president is making it worse for all of Europe. Quick update, Ben, just from neighboring Austria, because we're talking about neo-Nazis so much today.

So this is a very important election, one to watch, and it really sucks that our own vice president is making it worse for all of Europe. Quick update, Ben, just from neighboring Austria, because we're talking about neo-Nazis so much today.

Back in September, we talked about Austria's elections where the far right freedom party, or FPO, won a majority with about 29% of the vote ahead of the conservative People's Party by about three points. So despite the fact that the far right party won The more slightly more moderate conservative party was given the mandate to form a government first, but they failed.

Back in September, we talked about Austria's elections where the far right freedom party, or FPO, won a majority with about 29% of the vote ahead of the conservative People's Party by about three points. So despite the fact that the far right party won The more slightly more moderate conservative party was given the mandate to form a government first, but they failed.

Back in September, we talked about Austria's elections where the far right freedom party, or FPO, won a majority with about 29% of the vote ahead of the conservative People's Party by about three points. So despite the fact that the far right party won The more slightly more moderate conservative party was given the mandate to form a government first, but they failed.

There were a bunch of political maneuverings that then happened. And then the far right party, the FBO and its leader, Herbert Kiko, were given the chance to try to form a government. He tried and tried and tried. They couldn't come to an agreement. And those talks fell apart. And he was forced to sort of like give up the mandate that's given to you by the president to form a government last week.

There were a bunch of political maneuverings that then happened. And then the far right party, the FBO and its leader, Herbert Kiko, were given the chance to try to form a government. He tried and tried and tried. They couldn't come to an agreement. And those talks fell apart. And he was forced to sort of like give up the mandate that's given to you by the president to form a government last week.

There were a bunch of political maneuverings that then happened. And then the far right party, the FBO and its leader, Herbert Kiko, were given the chance to try to form a government. He tried and tried and tried. They couldn't come to an agreement. And those talks fell apart. And he was forced to sort of like give up the mandate that's given to you by the president to form a government last week.

And the sticking points were security, immigration, and the far-right party's pro-Russia stance. And what's interesting about this is a lot of political analysts think that Kikol wanted these talks to blow up because one thing that might come from this is Austria being forced to hold another set of elections. And his party has been doing even better in polls since the last round.

And the sticking points were security, immigration, and the far-right party's pro-Russia stance. And what's interesting about this is a lot of political analysts think that Kikol wanted these talks to blow up because one thing that might come from this is Austria being forced to hold another set of elections. And his party has been doing even better in polls since the last round.

And the sticking points were security, immigration, and the far-right party's pro-Russia stance. And what's interesting about this is a lot of political analysts think that Kikol wanted these talks to blow up because one thing that might come from this is Austria being forced to hold another set of elections. And his party has been doing even better in polls since the last round.

So the far-right is just gaining and gaining and gaining. Long story short, like we don't know who will be the next leader in Austria, but this is just another example of this trend of the growing strength of these far right parties across Europe, including the most extreme versions of them in Germany and in Austria.