Posted on 01/01/2025 8:17:59 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
You’re my favorite president!” Donald Trump reportedly told Javier Milei. Milei was the first foreign leader to meet the president-elect in person after the election and is one of Trump’s most dedicated allies, despite the fact that in many ways their political philosophies are nearly as divergent as can be. The Argentine maverick, who shares with Trump a distinctive head of hair, has accumulated an international fanbase for his almost miraculous accomplishment of pulling Argentina back from the brink of hyperinflation and complete economic devastation.
Go back just a few years and few people would have ever expected Milei, the eccentric, chainsaw-wielding libertarian economist, to be a person of any political importance—let alone end up getting chummy with Trump and snapping photos with Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago. Now, he’s not only the chief executive and head of state of his own country of Argentina, but a prophet and harbinger for libertarians, conservatives, populists, and enemies of the “zurdos de mierda” (literally “shit leftists”) everywhere.
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Leftists, Milei insists, are parasites. They cannot exist without other people protecting them from the social and economic realities of their decisions. Cut down the bloated rolls of government workers; privatize the state industries; strictly control state contracting; end subsidies, handouts, and grants of all kinds; destroy the buildup of laws, rules and regulations that provide the rationale for the existence of the administrative state, and they will dissipate like fog in the morning sun.
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We in the US also fight the same thing.
The simple truth about economic freedom vs bloated government and collectivism, which has been known since the start of human civilization
Yet we still ignore it, or think “it will be different this time.”
Parasites is the proper word for them. Trump didn’t go that far and perhaps he’s gonna lighten up just enough to insure Vance can be the honey to Trump’s vinegar.
Our govt has lethargic semi dead people getting in the way, preventing revival.
I think there are many large corporations and labor unions that have lethargic semi-dead getting in the way of revival.
Incredible.
Excellent article. Milei is a very lucky man in that his opposition actually assisted him into office. But the success of his policies is undeniable. I wish our politicos would learn from him.
Admirable. But he’d better watch his back. The Peronists won’t go down without a fight.
That was a great read.
*bump*
Trump and his closest advisors need to study how Miles has destroyed his country’s Deep State, and do the same here.
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