Here we go again. Remember when Jair Bolsonaro was elected? Giorgia Meloni? You just know how the mainstream media are going to frame the election of Javier Milei in Argentina. Ready the cliches and buzzwords! “Populist!” “Far right!” And, of course, the single word guaranteed to send the mainstream media’s few remaining readers into a fit of the screaming mee-mees: TRUMP!
Populist Javier Milei was elected on Sunday as Argentina’s new president-elect, in an abrupt shift to the right for the South American country, with some comparing the new leader to former President Trump.
Milei clinched an estimated 55.7 percent of the vote over Economy Minister Sergio Massa in Sunday’s presidential runoff vote, marking the highest percentage that a presidential candidate has received since the country’s return to constitutional rule in 1983.
“Populist”, of course, is merely left-speak for popular ideas that the left don’t approve of.
Milei was a vocal critic of the government on television, but only entered the political scene in 2020, vowing to “blow up” the system and railing against the “thieves” of the political elites, Reuters reported.
You certainly can’t blame Argentinians for being thoroughly sick of the Establishment. After all, this is a country suffering 140% annual inflation.
The South American country’s soaring inflation was a central focus of Milei’s campaign […]
Describing himself as a “anarcho-capitalist,” Milei has proposed boosting the economy by loosening the country’s labor laws and making deep cuts in government, eliminating several ministries such as culture, women, health and education.
He has proposed reducing welfare payments while vowing to cut public works “down to zero,” per BBC News.
Well, now you start to get the picture of why the mainstream media are so afraid of him. Naturally, they do their best to smear and straw-man him.
He is a staunch opponent of feminist policies and abortion, which was legalized in Argentina in recent years, while also rejecting human responsibility for climate change.
In a televised appearance, Milei railed against Pope Francis, who is Argentine, calling him an “imbecile” for defending justice, according to The AP.
The Hill
Nice sleight-of-hand, there, AP (by the way, do you still have Hamas operatives on your payroll?). What Milei attacked was the Pope’s idiot obsession with social justice, which is diametrically opposite to actual justice. This is why Milei denounced Freaky Francis as a “filthy leftist”.
What no doubt really enrages the media is Milei’s staunch defence of Israel.
“I don’t go to Church, I go to Synagogue,” he said in a recent interview. “I don’t follow a priest, I follow a Rabbi. I learn Torah. I’m known internationally as a friend of Israel. In addition to aligning with the US and Israel, I want to move our Embassy to Jerusalem. If I win, my first trip is to Israel.”
Cue fainting fits from the Greens.
To quote more of Milei’s own words:
“Redistributing wealth is a violent act.” Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is a “lie of socialism”. Even more importantly, unlike so many deluded loons on the centre-right, Milei is well aware that “you can’t give shit leftists an inch”. That includes China: he “doesn’t cut deals with Communists”.
Even his opposition to abortion, the sacred cow of the media left, is, whether you agree with it or not, based on solid, liberal logic (real liberalism, not the left-wing authoritarianism passed off as “liberal” in the USA):
“How can being able to kill other human beings be a right gained? As a liberal, I believe in the unrestricted right to life based on the defence of life, liberty and property. I defend life, biology says that life begins with conception”
Buenos Aires Times
The same logic leads him to defend free trade in both guns and human organs.
“Why does everything have to be regulated by the state? My first property is my body,” he says.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether Milei delivers.
“He speaks like somebody from the street, like one of us, that’s why he is so popular”, says Rodrigo Aguera, an Argentinian waiter based in Barcelona.
“I am in favour of a change,” he says, but “We’ll have to see what happens after this, because in the end, politicians will always be politicians, they tell you one thing and then do another.”
EuroNews
If the tiresome comparisons to Trump bear fruit, then Argentinians can look forward to an economic boom.
Unless the globalist deep state reasserts its dominance and unseats democracy yet again.
