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#BREAKING Austria far-right concedes defeat in presidential race
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Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)We may all end up as Europeans again.
SharonAnn
(13,766 posts)SamKnause
(13,037 posts)I hope the momentum keeps going.
Too bad, too sad the U.S. fell for Trump's bullshit.
BlueMTexpat
(15,348 posts)meow2u3
(24,743 posts)Good thing Austria saw through the far-right BS. Too bad Americans couldn't.
ismnotwasm
(41,917 posts)spanone
(135,632 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)that people can open their eyes to what is going on around the world.
wisteria
(19,581 posts)ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)rurallib
(62,342 posts)spooky3
(34,300 posts)Glad it will stay that way.
Jeroen
(1,061 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,809 posts)I was really worried about this one. Well, at least one western democracy has shown some fucking sense. I only hope and pray that France follows suit soon, but I'm not too hopeful on that account.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)rejected the far right. We should be saying the same, and did, but lost. I'm so sad, but glad. Antisemitism has been very strong in Austria, so this rejection of extremist white nationalism is especially significant.
nevergiveup
(4,744 posts)this morning who said Australian's were obsessed with America's presidential election. Maybe the shock of seeing what happened here had an affect. It would be nice to think that maybe something positive came out of the fiasco here.