2024-09-07 11:59:00
Although political leaders, who are forced to draw attention to their own merits, whether authentic or false, are not usually known for their humility, few are as egomaniacal as Javier Milei. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may be surpassed in this area, who claims to have many extraordinary things, but this is a very special case. In any case, to put Kim, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and the leaders of many other countries, some of them very successful, in their rightful place, Milei claims that he is “one of the two most relevant politicians on planet earth. “”; The other is the American Donald Trump who hopes to return to the White House soon.
For Milei, Argentina is short. It is understandable, therefore, that he is worried about the resistance of so many to understand that the country is in the hands of a very talented person, an achievement that, with the support of the forces of heaven, is leading it towards a glorious future. It is for this reason that he is undertaking a kind of holy war against journalists with a Jurassic mentality who try to investigate the members of the government that he leads and who sometimes have the temerity to reveal secrets that would be better for enough to keep them locked up. and hence the decree which has just been signed to block the access of the damned writers and their accomplices to public information.
A sensitive man, Milei does not at all like to answer questions about his history, his voluminous writings or the adventures of his four-legged children. To end the unjust journalistic siege of which he is a victim, Milei is determined to control the participants, treating them as agents of a hostile power or extortionist mafia agents. His attitude towards journalism is the same as that of those Kirchnerist militants who encouraged the children to cover with excitement the portraits of those who showed interest in the ideological contradictions and, of course, in the corruption that was so typical of the order that Néstor in. Kirchner and his wife.
Although there are probably few milleistas – not to mention the people who voted for him because they did not trust any other member of the national political team and wanted to punish “the caste” – the President blusters about his global importance on the face of it, the President continues to do so. to have an enviable share of popular support. To the frustration of his enemies, despite the continuing decline in living standards, about half of those consulted who want to record what is happening in the collective mind are still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Those who support him appreciate his willingness to defend his principles without worrying about the political costs, which is why Milei believes that the pension increase proposed by Congress would be less damaging to him. to veto is not to give up on himself. Perhaps, in political and not only economic terms, he is right, because it would not be in his interest at all to spread the impression that he has begun to retreat.
Of greater concern from their point of view is the position of the liberal economists who say they believe, for reasons they should understand very well, that their project will fail. There are incomprehensible people, like the radical Martín Tetaz – a man who, before his luck in politics, was a famous journalist -, who dare to criticize his management of the national economy because, according to them, he should have the weight official devaluation. as soon as possible to reduce the dangerous exchange gap. Needless to say, Milei and Economy Minister Luis Caputo are scoffing at such protests; They fear that a devaluation would restore inflation and thus strip Milei of the aura of innocence that has given it so many advantages.
Like many who came before him in the Casa Rosada, Milei has reasons to be satisfied with what has been achieved in the first phase of his administration. He ignores the fact that, after half a year in office, Cristina Kirchner, Mauricio Macri and, as funny as it might be in light of what would happen next, even Alberto Fernández believed that they were the right track, since there were smiles in the polls. on them. However, difficult problems arose that they could not solve and little by little, or suddenly, public opinion turned against them.
Will this be Milei’s fate? It would be if there were more convincing options than the visible ones, but, fortunately for the President, there are none at the moment. Personalism has yet to recover from the trauma of last year’s election defeat, and Milei has appropriated much of Macri’s ideology, although he is world-famous, the party does not have enough support to allow him to to carry out the extremely ambitious project that has been proposed.
Before becoming President of the Republic, Milei took advantage of the distance that separated him from other politicians, but when he was in power he was not allowed to ignore them. Whatever it may be, Argentina is not an absolute monarchy where the word of the king or queen is law, but a democracy where the head of state must take into account the opinions of others, including the opinions of legislators .
As Milei represents an extreme version of a very important current opinion, it would be logical for him to formally agree with those who support him, but his desire to continue to emphasize the things that distinguish him and other politicians and the willingness of his. fans to defend against intruders into the niches they managed to occupy, all attempts to “merge” La Libertad Avanza, Macri’s PRO and some smaller groups to build a liberal party broad enough to give him more parliamentary firepower.
For La Libertad Avanza, it is not very beneficial that no opposition force is able to create difficulties for the Government unless it temporarily combines with others with which it will have little in common. Rather, the sense of impunity it generates encourages indiscipline. Similarly, in part because many libertarians joined the party because they wanted to take advantage of Milei’s popularity, not because they shared his intellectual commitment to preaching a set of Viennese thinkers the last century, too much privilege their own immediate desires and, needless to say, their personal vanity above the project that embodies the Boss.
Not united in their adherence to a particular political program, some temporarily powerful people do not hesitate to boycott and then expel those they do not want. Although Milei is an ideologue who imagines himself summoned by a spiritual entity to spread what he taught him throughout the world, he did not take the trouble to indoctrinate his companions sufficiently, so that, unlike members the other revolutionary sects, , seem to understand very well what the leader is trying to do. Whether the prophet likes it or not, it would be in his best interest to start the “cultural battle” he so often mentions at home.
For those who have little interest in such matters but are still drawn to militancy, the only thing that really matters is the realist streak which, summed up in terse slogans like “no money,” is in mind for us, in the long run, trying to live beyond our means often has such disastrous consequences as the country is suffering. However, even if Milei’s national finances would be organized so that there would be no inflation from now on, market shocks, surprise devaluations and so on would only be the first stage of an unprecedented transformation in the world, where almost all others would be more than enough.
What they want is for Argentina to be a “normal country” according to the patterns that continue to prevail, not only here but also in other latitudes, although there are signs that there may be a pattern run in those that come close to the ideal. out. Milei’s global fame is largely due to the fact that he believes he can devise a better model that other countries will soon adopt.
Be that as it may, even if Milei’s management succeeds, it would take a long time before Argentina reaches the boundary that separates what is already proven and what is only speculative. At this point, there is no doubt that liberal capitalism, tempered by effective public institutions, works far better than any other option that has been tried. Those who support Milei without endorsing his most unfriendly characteristics do so because they take it for granted that in order for the country and its inhabitants to have a good future, it will be necessary to dismantle the intrinsically corrupt corporate system which prevents them from taking advantage of their. natural gifts. They believe that once the task thus undertaken is completed, the current government and its successors will simply be able to manage the outcome without wasting time trying to do something as radically new as Milei’s proposed. composition.
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