Free Republic

Javier Milei’s painful but necessary reform project gets needed momentum after midterm elections.For decades, Argentina’s political leadership has rotated between spendthrift socialists snuffing out economic growth – and would be free-marketeer reformers undermined by their own timidity. Over the past two years, Argentine President Javier Milei has come closer than anyone to changing the narrative, and voters just gave him permission to keep going.“Today we pass the turning point,” Milei told supporters late Sunday, as his La Libertad Avanza party won 41 percent of the national vote in midterm elections. That first-place finish can fairly be called a landslide in...