Javier Milei always had a fetish with Donald Trump. A few days before assuming the presidency, on a trip to the United States of November and December 2023, he moved heaven and earth to meet with the then republican candidate despite the fact that the one who ruled was Joe Biden and that he had been an unprecedented breakdown. If that diplomatic role finally did not happen, it was not only because its collaborators managed to deter it, but also because Trump’s agenda is very tight. They had to spend several more months so that the Argentine could pose next to his idol at a CPAC summit – the organization that alutines the leaders of the new right – and to see each other again with Trump back in power. Today, the new photo in New York and the millionaire mangazo of the libertarian government to the American treasure complete the saga.
Milei always looked in Trump’s mirror, whom he considers the maximum reference of the right in the world, next to himself, of course. But the truth is that this mirror seems deformed, because Milei is not Trump. For several reasons. The first has to do with the economic: while Trump is shown as an consummated protectionist, which rises tariffs to the products from the rest of the world to protect the US industry, its Argentine pair does the opposite, it opens the country’s economy, it disregulates and releases. One is nationalist, the other liberal.
A second difference is in depth they want to go with the chainsaw that the US government took as a symbol of libertarian management: Trump wants to shrink the State, but not to do so disappear, as Milei says in his dreams of anarchococapitalista. And a third nuance lies in the resilience capacity of one and the other. The American completed his first mandate and could not be reelected, but returned to the White House four years later before the inoperance of Biden and the Democrats. Milei has been in power and the last days of its management for a little more than a year and a half, with the uncontrolled dollar, the Central Bank bleeding reserves, the stagnant economy, the hot street and the polls against, resemble a apocalypse.
In the midst of that stunning weakness, it is that the libertarian returns to throw the manga to his idol and to ask for a selfie. Trump today is the last resort he has left.
