Milei’s ultra-confrontational way of governing derives from his messianic project. The President and those who make up his inner circle are deeply convinced of carry out the divine mission to found a new social order, whose reference is a mythologized past in which Argentina would have been a world power. Milei’s project is both political and spiritual: one dimension cannot be fully understood without the other.
in the movements millenarians like the one promoted by our President – although his followers do not understand his entire vision – radical social transformation is part of a divine plan and for this both human and heavenly intervention are necessary.
This intimate conviction of being a sacred instrument can be seen in the testimonies of his former colleagues compiled in the book “El Loco”, by Juan Luis González, in some confessions in his days of media phenomenon and later in references to his public speeches, first as a winning politician and then as President.
His economic reading of Argentine history and the country’s current complicated situation is inserted into a larger cosmological vision that includes “forces of heaven”to the “One” (God), to extraordinary intermediaries (Conan, his sister Karina) who help him fulfill the divine legacy of making the forces of Good (libertarian capitalism) triumph over those of Evil (statism and communism). engendered by the Evil One).
There are no metaphors here. Milei is not “like” a prophet. Milei believes himself to be a prophetwho came “not to lead lambs, but to awaken lions.”
With his idiosyncratic use of the Bible, Judaism, and trans-species spiritualism, he composes a effective mix of spirituality that drives the political project and explains its contentious, Manichean and refractory characteristics to dialogue. Milei’s reading of reality is not only economic or historical, but it builds a new crack, now cosmic, a fight between Good and Evil, in which all Argentines are involved (the “good ones” and the others). ).
*Alejandro Frigerio is an anthropologist and sociologist.
by Alejandro Frigerio
