The one who speaks is not the president of the nation. Rather, it is not yet. It is June 2018 and, except for the small detail of the presidential band, the Javier Milei that monopolizes the attention in the Andy Kusnetzoff program is equal to the current one. It has the same hair, the same gestures, the same vergorrabia. And also the same career, in this case to tell that he participated in “several” sexual trios.
- Two men and a woman?-, the driver of “We can speak (pH)”, while the rest of the participants laughs at the occurrence.
Milei, however, is as serious as if he were analyzing the future of the complex Argentine economy. And, with the same tone with which he can talk about the price of the dollar, he answers in mathematical code.
- In 90% of cases, yes, there were two women with me.
That television appearance was not one more for Milei. On the contrary. He was an absolute watershed in his media career, the prelude to his jump to politics, roads inseparable with each other. On that occasion the libertarian spoke not only of the trios in which he said he had participated, but also of one of his passions, until then unknown: the tantric sex, of which he said to be a teacher. The climax of that night, to the point that when Milei began to tell Kusnetzoff stopped him to endure the auction until the last minutes of the program, it was when he told the nickname that said he had won on those courts. His nickname “bad cow” was literally the first viral moment of his career. To the point that, only one month later, he arrived for the first time at the lid of a national media, in news, under the title “Argentina Freak”. That 2018 would end with him leading the list of economists with more minutes of air on TV.
Seven years passed but the speech given by the now Argentine president in Davos makes it seem to be longer. It is that the Perorata who pronounced on how homosexuality ends up leading to pedophilia -and that is mounted to dozens of statements against the gays of their circle and officials, in addition to the daily disqualifications that the libertarian usually does and that include a ” ass ”, which can be of a” mandril “but that is always” broken “- is very far from that progressive liberal character with whom he became famous.
Because the important thing is not what Milei said that day, but what he did not tell. If in 90% of cases the trios in which they participated were with “two women”, what happened in the other 10%? Was he, another man and a woman? Or were two men and him really? Milei, applying the logic he used in Davos, promoted pedophilia? Or the radical turn in the speech of the libertarian is only pushed by the air of the time, which blow from the United States of Trump? There are two things in clear: one is that the Government’s antigay crusade has already started and another is that Milei, with the friendships with which it is surrounded today, will never tell what was happening 1 out of 10 times in its bed.
Changes
All those who knew Milei in depth before they got into politics were stunned with the speech in Davos. “Never, not once, or coffee talks, I heard it say something similar, neither that nor any kind of homophobic comment,” says someone who had an intimate relationship with him for more than a decade. The words of this person match the character who conquered the public from the networks and television panels.
Although today it seems very distant, Milei was a renewal of liberalism and in several ways he played to be someone progressive within that world. He said that marriage was an archaic institution, did not wrinkle clothes due to the sexual orientation of any person and even had a kind of formula to explain their differences with “the right.” “Someone of the right does not bother who you sell but if it bothers him who you get in bed. A liberal liberal does not bother either of the two things, he does what you want, ”he used to say.
From that line to associate homosexuality with pedophilia, or the obsession that Milei developed with the “ass” -“we leave them ass as a mandrel”, it is a phrase that usually repeats, in addition to memes in which he speaks of “much much Gay sex ”- There is a very long path. However, although this was the episode that raised the most controversy, it was far from being the only one. When all the statements and positions that have maintained members of the ruling on the subject come together, it cannot be thought that what happened in Davos was an isolated event. Not at all. Diana Mondino compared the gays with Los Piojos, Ricardo Bussi, Tucuman legislator, with the “Rome, deaf and blind”, Victoria Villarruel and Francisco Sánchez, former secretary of cult, were shown against equal marriage, Carlos Rodríguez, former economic economic advisor , he said that he gave him “Pain of Panza to see two men kissing”, Minister Mariano Cneo Libarona denied any sexual identity that “does not align with biology,” Francisco Oneto, former candidate for Vice Governor of Buenos Aires and Milei Personal Lawyer He said that we must “cure them”, and “Bertie” Benegas Lynch said that behind the “gay march” there is a “lobby to obtain benefits” and compared homosexuality with being part of the “Torino Club.” The case of Nicolás Márquez and Agustín Laje is different: they have come for years, long before freedom there is progress, pointing against the homosexual community, in books and in interviews. The first directly qualifies them as “sodomites”, “insane”, “inverted” and analyzes it as a “pathology.” These are only the best known cases, of first -line members. Below there are many more, such as what the president of La Libertad did in Santa Cruz, Jairo Henoch Guzmán, who uploaded to his networks a photo of the flag of pride on fire.
The advanced against the homosexual community is inserted, in any case, in a more expanding narrative of the ruling that points against everything that they consider the “gender ideology”, where progressivism or feminism also enters. And, as usually happens in history, words are the first advanced of the facts, which come later. It is that the government flirts with the idea of imposing a battery of measures in that line. In a work commanded by the advisor Santiago Caputo and who carries out the increasing , the non -binary ID, and the Law of Electoral Parity, among others. The idea of eliminating the figure of femicide, with which the ruling had played, seems in stand by.
Strategy
The turn in Milei’s narrative is so radical that it merits several questions. What is the government looking for? A simple comparison between the speech he gave in Davos in 2024 with this speech at the clear of a deep change. In the first one mentioned the word “libertarian” six times, once “feminism”, twice “values”, and zero times “civilization”, “wokism”, “homosexuality”, “past” and “hormones.” In the last one he said zero times “libertarian”, four “feminism”, six “values”, six “civilization”, 16 “wokismo”, three “homosexuality” and “past”, and two “hormones.”
What happened in just one year? In the latest news edition there was Márquez’s growing influence and especially his pupil, Laje, in the president’s head. In fact, the version that the latter, the most famous intellectual who has the new Spanish -speaking right, gave a hand to put together the speech in Davos circulated in the red circle. José Benegas, who in 2020 wrote the book “The unthinkable, the curious case of the liberals mutating fascism”, a warning years ago that Milei is just “the layer of an onion” behind which the thought of Ultraconservatives such as Laje and Márquez. Trump’s victory in the United States and Milei’s closeness with Elon Musk – who went from denying that his greeting is Nazi to appear in a “alternative for Germany” convention, neo -Nazi space in that country that seeks to win the elections – ends up Complete the panorama of presidential change.
The turn, therefore, is not in a vacuum. Milei is importing a speech, created in the United States, but traveling the world. Rodrigo Nunes, Brazilian intellectual, published in 2023 a book about what happened in that country – “Bolsonaro and extreme global right” – which adapts strikingly well to what is happening in Argentina. “His narrative is that of a civilizational conflict that is quickly approaching at his decisive time, and in which the fantasy heroism of an alleged ‘spirit of the crusades’ is renewed to face enemies such as immigrants, blacks and women,” he says , and this list could be added to the homosexual community. “The remarkable thing is the way in which it transforms real threats into reflections of a mirrors house. The problem with democracy is not that political elites are committed to the interests of corporations and financial markets, but the undue privileges received by minorities. The perverse rationality behind these irrational narratives is that they do not stop recognizing how serious the general state of things is. And if the reality of our conditions becomes more traumatic, Isn’t it expected that there is a growing leak towards the imaginary?” It is in that line where a president of the nation, also enhanced by something as imaginary as believing that he is the chosen one of God, can compare homosexuality with pedophilia.
Past and future. In December 2014, the British magazine “Closer” brought in its lid a photo of Florian Philippot, at that time vice president of the National Front, the space of the French Marine Le Pen. What he showed, under the title “Yes to love for all”, it would not have been news, much less an international, but would have been for a small detail: from Philippot’s hand was his partner, a man. However, the involuntary uncover of French did not cause his expulsion from political armed, which constituted the true novelty behind the image. In the party of Le Pen, of the most conservative in Europe – founded in the seventies by his father, Jean Marie, author of phrases such as “homosexuality is a biological anomaly that can lead to the disappearance of the world” – Be gay and It was not a mortal sin. It was a full sample that the relationship between this community and the spaces of extreme or new right had been complexed, to the point that the writer Pablo Stefanoni -who rescues this anecdote in his canonical book “Why did the rebellion become from the right ?- He speaks of a “homonationalism” and the “gay facos.”
In fact, since the controversy lifted the government tried to go back on their steps, and even Milei wanted to deny that he said what the world saw what he said. We need to see, then, what side of the narrative of the new right ends up imposing.
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