Posted on 11/24/2023 11:22:48 AM PST by TBP
Javier Milei, the self-described classical liberal and anarcho-capitalist who won Argentina's presidential election on Sunday, campaigned with a brash message of slashing government programs, cutting taxes, and privatizing state-owned enterprises.
Can voters experiencing economic turmoil be persuaded that government is the problem, rather than the solution?
Yes.
Milei won more than 56 percent of the vote
Look how The New York Times summarizes Milei's platform: "lowering taxes; slashing regulations; privatizing state industries; reducing the number of federal ministries to eight from 18; shifting public education to a voucher-based system and public health care to insurance-based; and cutting federal spending by up to 15 percent of Argentina's gross domestic product."
While there might be some overlap with American conservatives when it comes to cutting certain taxes and regulations, the rest of Milei's political agenda is expressly libertarian and often directly at odds with the aims of the so-called "New Right."
15% of us know. The other 85%......funny cat tiktoks. Sad to say.
“America’s conservatives are moving in the opposite direction: ginning up culture wars to justify further intrusions into individuals’ right to live as they see fit, and competing with the progressive left to pander with promises of more economic interventions: tariffs, industrial policies, direct subsidies to the working and middle classes.”
Um, really?
What conservatives can learn from Argentina?
Can we have a break?
They can learn to accept Trump
Is he still going to join BRIC and go against America on Jan. 1?
I’m sorry to say America has a long way to go before it is ready for anything approaching Melie’s philosophy.
Argentinians have had many decades of rampant inflation, government corruption and theft. It has finally sunk in that there is no progressive, interventionist or state-sponsored solution. Indeed, they finally understand their woke, corrupt state IS the problem
Americans still very much believe in the nanny-state. Moreover, having the world’s reserve currency means US/Dem’s money printing, bloated debt and insider dealing gets diluted around the world before full impact his felt at home.
nothing they couldn’t learn from MAGA if they sat up and paid any attention at all...
He’s intending to withdraws from BRICS. Let’s see if he can pull it off.
Our economy is falling apart fast. We’re closer to a Milei point than you might think.
Catastrophic amounts of freedom vanished with Covid… under a conservative prez. Tell the truth, would you have stayed home and worn a mask if Obama was prez.
There was even a voice of reason in the White House calling for not rushing to vaccines.
Trumps very own mail in ballots cemented permanent tyranny in our country.
His daca amnesty started caravans of thousands televising their invasion.
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