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First and foremost, Hofer is anti-mass immigration. He’s said that Austria is not the home of those who go to fight for ISIS or who rape (this was unbelievably enough a controversial statement). His party is Eurosceptic, and Hofer said that in particular should Turkey enter the EU, Austria should immediately leave.

He’s very pro-gun. He caries around a Glock with him and talks about it a lot (he says Austrians need to be armed because of the extra threat all the migrants have brought). His party is also for tax cuts and pro-business. At the same, though, it is a populist party that wants to preserve the government programs that the Austrian people are used to. The party says that it is the mass immigration that Austria is receiving that puts these programs at risk.

Some in the media have taken to calling him the “Donald Trump of Europe” for his nationalist tinged populism. His slogan is “Austria First.” However, unlike Trump, he is very soft-spoken and walks with a limp and a cane, so he’s considered fairly unthreatening for what the Euro press propagandists always term the “far right” or worse. His party does have a somewhat unsavory past, like France’s National Front, but it is by far the best chance for the survival of Austria. Naturally, the press has been as “fair” in covering Hofer as they have been with Trump.

Van der Bellen is a hard-left, pro-immigrant, feminist radical environmentalist.