Luminaries of the global far right are in raptures over Javier Milei’s thumping election victory in Argentina which experts predict will turn Buenos Aires into a new stomping ground for the populist radical right.
Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro led the merrymaking after their Argentinian ally trounced his rival, the Peronist finance minister Sergio Massa, by nearly 3 million votes in Sunday’s presidential election. The former US president predicted Milei would “truly make Argentina great again” while Brazil’s ex-president applauded a victory for “honesty, progress and freedom”. Bolsonarista and Mileísta activists predicted Milei’s win would be the first in a trio of rightwing conquests that would see Trump and Bolsonaro reclaim power in 2024 and 2026.
In his first post-victory interview on Monday, Milei announced he would travel to the US and Israel – where he has promised to move Argentina’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – before being sworn in on 10 December, alongside his ultra-conservative vice-president elect Victoria Villarruel.
Bolsonaro announced he would attend Milei’s inauguration in Buenos Aires and posted footage of a pally video call with Argentina’s president-elect. “I’m really happy,” Bolsonaro told the radical libertarian economist. “You have a big job ahead of you … and it’s a job that goes beyond Argentina,” Brazil’s former leader added. “Gracias!” Milei replied.
… And that’s when Argentina realized they had seriously fucked up.
Tbf in my humble opinion the Philippines still holds the all time election L for voting in a dictators son over a human rights lawyer.
Who cares about inflation they can
checks notes
sell organs. Who needs those amiright?
How many kidneys does one person really need?
Sharing is
caringfor communist scum like the Pope. Selling is winning!
No, he has a lot of domestic fans too. You can find a lot of them on the Argentinian sub on r*ddit. He resembles Trump in that way quite a bit.
Oh, I’m aware… my meme was quite optimistic.
Knowing their history with Fascist leaders, they know what they are doing. Corruption on high it is.
When he finished first in the country’s presidential primaries in August, Milei was quick to thank “the best strategists”. Except, they weren’t people, they were his dogs, who he referred to as his “four-legged children”, Conan, Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas.
His close relationship with his pets all started in 2004 when he adopted an English mastiff called Conan, named after 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. Milei said the dog became his “true and greatest love” and that he came to see Conan as “literally his son”. The single and childless new president has credited the 200 lb dog with sticking by his side through everything and being his closest friend.
When Conan died in 2017, Milei decided to visit a medium in order to communicate with his beloved pet. During that conversation, Milei said Conan gave him the task of becoming president of Argentina.
Just in case you didn’t realize precisely how insane he is.
John Oliver did a bit on this guy, crazy he won.
fucking hell…
Cool, just that headline by itself tells me exactly what kind of asshole we’re talking about.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro led the merrymaking after their Argentinian ally trounced his rival, the Peronist finance minister Sergio Massa, by nearly 3 million votes in Sunday’s presidential election.
In his first post-victory interview on Monday, Milei announced he would travel to the US and Israel – where he has promised to move Argentina’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – before being sworn in on 10 December, alongside his ultra-conservative vice-president elect Victoria Villarruel.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, he played in a Rolling Stones cover band and found fame as a foul-mouthed economic pundit on Argentinian television before being elected to congress in 2021 for his libertarian party Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances).
Ariel Goldstein, an Argentine academic who studies Latin America’s populist right, said he expected Buenos Aires to become a meeting place for members of the global far right and host an edition of the Madrid Forum, a rightwing “anti-communist” summit founded in 2020 by a thinktank linked to Vox.
That burning desire for change was writ large around Buenos Aires’s iconic Obelisk on Sunday night, as thousands of Milei voters gathered to toast a new and profoundly unpredictable chapter in their country’s history.
Roman Neveira, a 23-year-old programmer waved a large blue-and-white Argentina flag as drivers cruised past shouting Milei’s slogan: “Viva la libertad, carajo!” (Long live, freedom, dammit!
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