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This is one of Rush’s most important pieces of analysis of how the Left-Liberal deranged media try to divert their readers/listeners from the real story to a made up one, i.e. the rise of a “far-right” in European politics.

If it weren’t for Islamic extremists, there would be no “far-right” (i.e., a smear term for conservatives) because the Marxists literally controlled most of European governments (England except Thatcher and Majors), France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy (okay nobody really controls anything there), Greece, Sweden, perhaps Norway and Finland, (possible exception, Denmark and the Baltic States, Hungary, and Poland. Does Austria still exist as any kind of entity or just a historical footnote?) Czechoslovakia - gone; Yugoslavia - gone; Romania - who knows; Bulgaria - still holding but in trouble.

Russia - a KGB state and supporter of some Islamic extremists including Iran and the dictatorship of Assad in Syria.

Any bright lights in Europe or have the lights gone out?

Yes, Austria is still an independent nation. It's a omplex parlimentary style, political system, with the many small parties that such systems often devolve into. It's hard to know all the players, but here is what Wikipedia reports on their political organization:

In the Austrian Legislative Elections of 2013, The Social Democratic Party received 27 percent of the vote and 52 seats; People's Party 24 percent and 47 seats, thus controlling together the majority of the seats. The Freedom Party received 40 seats and 21 percent of the votes, while the Greens received 24 percent but only 12 seats. Two new parties, Stronach and the NEOS, received less than 10 percent of the vote, and 11 and five seats respectively.[67]

The Freedom Party is the party fighting against immigration. Unlike other anti-immigrant parties in Europe it appears to have no fascist background. (I use the term in it's technical sense, that is connection with the historic fascist movement of the Nazi's, Franco and Mussolini's parties, and other groups associated with them. I do not use the term as an all purpose lefty insult meaning "people on the right libs disagree with")

Ideology[edit] Under the leadership of Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPÖ has focused on describing itself as a Heimat and social party. This means that the party promotes its role as a guarantor of Austrian identity and social welfare. Economically, it supports regulated liberalism with privatisation and low taxes, combined with support for the welfare state; however, it maintains that it will be impossible to uphold the welfare state if current immigration policies are continued.[62]
The present FPÖ has variously been described as right-wing populist,[63] national conservative,[64] "right-conservative",[65] "right-national",[66] and far right.[67][68][69] The party has traditionally been part of the national liberal camp, and generally identifies with a freiheitlich (libertarian) profile.considered her ideology as national conservative.[71]