The communicator Tomás Rebord once again shook the Peronist internal with a crude diagnosis. In his recent editorial for the streaming BLENDER, the host and reference of the streaming universe—historically identified with positions close to Peronism—rehearsed a self-criticism about the reasons for the Mileist triumph and the identity crisis of the opposition space. His point: Peronism fails to offer a concrete proposal and is reduced to slowing down, reacting and “talking about others.”
“If offered a choice between Milei or the void, people choose Milei,” he said. And he added: “Between a proposal and a kind of brake on the proposal, capable people choose the proposal.” For Rebord, the central problem is not only about names but about content: “Is Peronism capable of talking about something other than others or its own? What are the ideas? I’m tired of discussing people.”
The streamer mentioned the internal debate about Axel Kicillof as an example of a personalistic discussion without a program: “No, not Axel because he played badly with Cristina. What does Axel want as a model? What is his economic model? What is his alliance framework?” And he asked the question that ran through his entire analysis: “What is the country’s fucking project?”
Rebord maintained that Peronism must stop postponing definitions: “There may be something resembling an opportunity there.” But he warned that lack of definition has electoral costs: “Today it happens to me that I am much more interested in the difference than in the synthesis. Because if the synthesis is not going to say anything, no one chooses it. It is now unconcealable.”
Finally, he posed a greater risk: that the Peronist identity would be reduced without being renewed. “And if this just continues to be postponed, what is going to happen is that this will simply become encapsulated until it slowly diminishes as an identity,” he said.
While the Government capitalizes on the opposition’s wear and tear and Milei maintains centrality, Rebord’s intervention reopens a question that has crossed Peronism since 2023: without a story, without a program and without visible leadership, can it be an option for power again?
