Austria’s Young Chancellor Sebastian Kurz Is Bringing the Far-Right Into the Mainstream

He made it all appear so easy. The fear, the hate, the insecurity in Europe started to seem like petty problems when Sebastian Kurz, the Chancellor of Austria, was on the stage in his hometown of Vienna, looking more like a class president in front of his high school reunion than a man who casts himself as Europe's last best hope.

It was Oct.