![In Austria, the Freedom Party, of FPO, have shaken up politics with a far-right cause.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/austria-politics-fpo-freedom-party-haider-europe-far-right-06212023-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
For anyone analyzing Austrian politics during the 1990s, there was no escaping the steady rise of Jorg Haider. The speed with which his vicious targeting of minorities drew support from working-class and lower-middle-class voters upended Austrian politics, presaging an electoral realignment that then unfolded across Europe.