Austria's Social Democrat (SPÖ) chancellor resigned today from his office and from his leadership of the party. An FPO right winger is the leading presidential candidate (different post) heading into a runoff election in May. All this is pretty much as far as I can tell 100% attributable to the extent to which the government has been overwhelmed by the Syrian refugee crisis and the overland diaspora route from Hungary/Slovenia into Western Europe via Austria. Vienna's mayor becomes interim head of the SPÖ. Head of the ÖVP becomes interim chancellor. The good news is that the Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer is my ticket to get my Austrian friends to shut the hell up about Donald Trump.