The nervousness that President Javier Milei takes over. He wants to change everything overnight, but the members of the damn “caste” – governors, mayors, officials, legislators, etc. -, without excluding some who claim to support him, resist allowing him to act with the fulminating speed he would like. It seems scandalous that such characters can take important decision making in the name of democracy that, unlike certain authoritarian modalities that would surely prefer, usually work slowly. For more signs, democratic rules provide politicians from the pile to press the rulers to modify their original proposals, in such a way making them less effective.
That this is the case is logical. In the democratic world, the three branches of power operate at speeds that are very different. By its nature, the Executive makes decisions at a pace that is usually much faster that is typical of the legislative that almost always prefers negotiated agreements among many people of diverse ideas and aspirations that, hopefully, leave most satisfied. For its part, the Judiciary, whose roots date back to the Roman Empire, moves with a degree of delay that is even more exasperating.
Based on the elections of the second half of 2023 and what the opinion surveys, Milei and their unconditional continue to be told by the only authentic representatives of the current Argentina and expect that the elections that are approaching will serve to correct what for them is an unbearable anomaly, since in their opinion the different legislatures and the provincial governments reflect the political reality of times.
Impatient man if there are, often Milei behaves as if he already believed in the country of 2026 in which, he imagines, freedom advances and his satellites will enjoy a parliamentary majority made up of their own legislators and others of the PRO, the UCR and minor games that will have climbed into the car of the winner. Such an attitude bothers politicians very much that, in addition to wanting the government to take their opinions very seriously, they are not accustomed to verbal abuse to which the president submits them daily. To get rid of, many have mentally returned to Argentina at other times when it was usual to propose generous apparent measures without worrying at all for the fiscal cost. In those days, there were that inflation was a stimulant that would help to boost a lethargic economy.
The politicians who are trying to stop Milei speak and act as if the national economy was already in a position to solve pension expenses far superior to those scheduled without having negative consequences that, it should be said, would soon harm the sectors supposedly benefited by their generosity. It is not the first time that, to hump the government on duty, without excluding the heading by Cristina, politicians who feel disrespected have fallen into the temptation to propose to sacrifice the economy for the sake of “noble causes.” On the contrary, the endless Argentine crisis is largely due to the will -cinic or sincere, the same of members of the “caste” of putting their alleged moral feelings to any practical consideration.
Milei is clearly convinced that what the deputies, senators and governors who are trying to force him to modify his economic strategy are in mind is to deprive him of his political capital and in such a way to transform him into, maybe, a purely symbolic president who would be easy to manipulate. It seems to suspect that Vice President Victoria Villarruel, “La Traitor”, is conspiring with subjects that are so perverse that they would be able to ruin the country, with its inhabitants inside, if they assumed that the collapse of everything achieved so far would be personally advantageous.
Although it is more than probable that some, starting with Cristina and her faithful, would feel claimed if Argentina suffered an comparable implosion with which it destroyed Venezuela, it is hard to believe that what all those who voted in favor of the bills that Milei are resolved to veto, is a change of regime. However, if they only thought about advising him a well -deserved rapapoly, he would have agreed to do so without attempting against fiscal balance. As for the vice president, a Catholic nationalist linked to “the military family” that De libertaria has very little, does not seem to raise a genuine danger to the Mileista ruling.
Anyway, by temperament rather than calculation, Milei clings to the role of the maximum spokesman for the outrage that so many feel for what has happened personally and because of the situation in which the country is. For anyone to rival it in this field, it does not hesitate to make full use of the presidential megaphone and, such as Donald Trump, to make the most of social networks. If the circumstances were other, the torrent of insults that the president shoots at those whose mere existence seems outrageous would have already cost him the support of the bulk not only of the political class but also of the Rasa citizen They have been harmed by the adjustment chainsaw.
To disappoint those who bet that, after a few months, most would blame the Government of Milei for the state of their own family economy, he has not yet forgotten the contributions of the previous governments.
In the agitated, confused and spiteful world that has touched us, for a politician it is a good business to be against virtually all those who in one way or another seem linked to the status quo. Well, Milei is an outstanding member of an international brotherhood of leaders who have been able to take advantage of the discomfort that they feel so many, although unlike others it has become in Adalid of an economic creed that in other parts of the world the insurgents repudiate. Far from wanting to abolish the State, the qualified ones of “ultra -right” intend to seize it and throw those who have colonized it.
Milei has been able to adopt an anarco-capitalist posture because here the rebellion against the very whipped “neoliberalism” that is related to him occurred many years ago and his replacement by supposedly superior schemes, more “human”, marked the beginning of the prolonged decline of the country. Thus, Milei has been able to afford to be an interpretation of socioeconomic reality that, in North America and Europe, would be considered outdated but that in Argentina seems radically new and, to top it off, it is relatively easy to understand. After all, it is not necessary to be a professional economist to know what Esloganes want to say such as “there is no money” and attributing his absence to the antisocial rapacity of a swarm of parasitic politicians and his accomplices.
What Milei has in common with the rebels of other latitudes is the unlimited contempt that motivated the “elites” formed by life members of “the caste” and the “progressive” bureaucrats and intellectuals that support them and that, in one way or another, have been responsible for building the internationally established order that is in the process of disintegrating. Although the problems that most concern Americans and Europeans are very different from those faced by Argentina, they all share the feeling that the prevailing “models” have failed and therefore must be replaced by others that are less suffocating.
For strange that it may seem, in Argentina it is much easier to “rethink the country” than it would be in those that are part of the developed world in which no natural resources are not exploited as Vaca Muerta, the minerals of the mountain range, the northern lithium lakes and in which we must depend completely on the productivity of the set. Likewise, in almost every relatively prosperous countries governments have to try to reconcile the interests and desires of the majority with those of large communities of immigrants from regions of cultures that are hardly compatible with the natives.
The optimists are not surprising in Europe. Few trust the ability of their respective country to solve the most urgent problems and be competitive in a world that has already become strikingly more demanding than yesterday. Likewise, those who believe that Europe is on the eve of a stage of very violent civil conflicts abound that, perhaps, will be aggravated by wars against external enemies, which is why in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany and France, governments have committed to double military spending. As long as the Government of Milei and its successors do not make too many mistakes, in such areas perspectives against Argentina may be considered more promising than in countries that until recently they were described as “normal.”
