The promise, typical campaign, took by surprise those who heard Javier Milei expose at the Faro Foundation event that invited him Monday night in Puerto Madero. There, in the midst of the applause of his faithful, he said he would stop insulting everyone. That, although it bothered it that “dictatorship of the forms” that pointed it out for its exable constant, would finally pay attention to the advice and put aside the swear words dedicated to their critics and adversaries, to “see if they are in a position to discuss ideas.”
Given the generalized astonishment, he insisted: “We are going to use the ways they like to show that they are empty peel.”
Seriously the most evil president in history would stop insulting?
Well no. The spell lasted a sigh.
In the same speech, just minutes later, he called Axel Kicillof “useless” in a rather hermetic diatribe. It was not “cockroach”, “rat”, “set”, “mandril” or “human garbage”, but it was an insult at last.
Before the promise, in the same act, the president had spoken of “company”, “Tremine”, “perisobres”, “mental parasites” and “zombies”, among other expletives. Until suddenly, Oh, reconsidered and promised the impossible.
Really someone believes that Milei will put aside the ways that led him to be what he is today, the president? For those who have that expectation, here is a small reminder: a recent work by the Ad Hoc consultancy showed that the leader of La Libertad progresses is the Argentine non -troll (that is, not anonymous) that most insults on social networks. Registered 1589 grievances between January 2023 and June of this year, which places it at the top. Another uncomfortable statistic: according to a national monitor survey, 73 percent of the consultations reject Milei’s insults and considers it a violent character.
There could be talk of his difficult childhood, the blows that his father or bullying in school was proposed, all factors that contribute to constitute a personality as complex and disruptive as his. But they are ultimately, mitigating who do not hide the underlying problem, that of a ruler unable to control their impulses.
It is known that in the past Milei became fame with his toxic language in the TV programs in the afternoon, where the word of the panelist that screams stronger predominates. But usar the same foul style from the highest position of power seems irresponsibility. Because the violence that is exercised from above ends up filtering to the rest of society.
Milei systematically disqualifies those who do not think like him, qualifies them as “rats”, “mandriles”, “parasites”, “degenerated”, “children of a bitch” and a long etcetera. It became something so everyday that the rest of the social and political actors in Argentina already seem to have naturalized and accepted. When in private someone questions it, the president only responds with this children’s argument: “But I am like that.”
Former Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta took the work of accounting for Milei’s outbursts – only those of his networks – during his first year of management: in 365 days he had issued 2,173 insults, that is, six per day. The spokesman Manuel Adorni replied that his analysis was “absolutely inconsequential.”
Naturalizing the violence of words is the most direct way to end up materializing in the facts.
Mandriles!
