What does Javier Milei s win in Argentina mean to America? – The Spectator World

Milei ran on an anti-establishment platform that had the entirety of US media drawing comparisons between him and Donald Trump. In some ways, the comparisons made sense: Milei packed stadiums, slammed the mainstream media and made the occasional crude yet hilarious joke. And like Trump, he also earned himself some big enemies, including Pope Francis, who he labeled a filthy leftist and the representative of the Devil on Earth. Even more like Trump, he found himself a loyal following enamored in great part by his larger-than-life personality.

And as in America in 2016, unexpectedly for most, it took one unconventional man to supplant the conventional right. Back in August, Milei shocked the nation by getting 30 percent of the vote in the presidential primary, leaving behind both Massa and center-right Patricia Bullrich  the candidate originally backed by former president Mauricio Macri.  

But unlike Trump, Milei s so-called far-right populism is not what many Americans have in mind. While Milei did sit down with Tucker Carlson for an interview and welcomed the comparisons to Brazil s Jair Bolsonaro and Trump, his philosophy is distinctly libertarian. He has called for an Ayn Rand-styled Atlas rebellion and literally destroyed a central bank piñata on national TV.

Milei s shock-therapy populism, though, shouldn t surprise. Argentina s major ill is inflation, not a shrinking manufacturing base or tremendous levels of immigration. He emerges as an antidote to a unique illness. 

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Juan P. Villasmil.

Certainly we can hope.