This is great news. The FPÖ is most certainly not a National Socialist party, unless one considers most of Europe’s Anti-Islamization parties to also be chock full of Nazis. It’s leader has visited Israel and is positive towards the Jewish nation. He even seems to look favorably on the Tea Party here.
In it’s current iteration, it is a populist party that, yes, wants to preserve the current welfare programs that their people are used to, but by Austrian standards it is fairly conservative/libertarian. The party as it is now (how it may have been decades ago is irrelevant) supports less government, more privatization of businesses, lower taxes. It’s traditionally been a Eurosceptic party too.
Does it have some questionable people in it’s ranks? Sure, but so do almost all the European parties trying to save their countries from the Islamic takeover and third-worldization. There is simply a lot more anti-Semitism throughout Europe among people of all ideological backgrounds than there is here. The FPÖ isn’t like Hungary’s Jobbik, where the party orientation is actually anti-Semitic. Plus, it’s the only major Austrian party that will put the security and interests of its own citizens first. This is a question of national survival. (Yes, they are pan-Germanists, but that idea was around centuries before the Nazis. Austria, after all, used to be considered the most important and powerful of the German states, as anyone who knows European history understands.)
For those wanting to read what the party stand for, this covers some major points:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Austria#Ideology
They aren’t?
So being for the two-speed version of the EU, and attacking “Jews” and “Zionists” is not neo-Nazi?
You would be hard-pressed to find any political parties in Europe that resembled US conservatives in any way, shape or form. And even US libertarianism has been tainted by anti-Zionism, so that is not a mark of validity, sorry.
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 privatization 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. …That description puts them squarely in the national socialist camp.