Well, he did it.
Argentina presidential election: far-right libertarian Javier Milei wins after rival concedes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/argentina-presidential-election-far-right-libertarian-javier-milei-wins-after-rival-concedes
You'd think enough high profile right wing failures had happened recently that populations would be wiser to them.
'The left' have had power there more often than not in recent decades.
They have failed the Argentinian people. around 40% of Argentinians live in poverty - yet there are multi-millionaires and billionaires in Argentina. Inflation is at 140%. The economic policies of both 'the left' and 'the right' in Argentina follow the same narrow path.
It leads to people looking to 'political outsiders', who promise the 'rip up' the economic blueprint that has failed too many people.
And people are too stupid/desperate to realise they're buying snake oil, who will just make their lives worse.
But if 'the left' continue to fail to stand for and promote policies that will improve the lives of 'the many' - which inevitably means hitting the overly-rich few - then we will see more of this.
The corporate-capitalism economic model adopted (albeit to varying degrees) by pretty much all developed countries could only ever have a finite shelf-life, as it creates too much wealth inequality and, via globalisation, has seen too much core wealth and manufacturing function transferred 'eastwards'. When most feel they're getting better off (like in the credit-funded period of economic growth from the mid-90's to 2008), the growing wealth inequality can be masked over. When harder times come, it can't. And dissatisfaction looms in.
The hard-right, funded by malevolent billionaires like the Kochs, Mercers, Thiel and with scumbag media moguls on side, are miles out in front in terms of having the tools and tactics to harness the growing dissatisfaction. Their first achievement is to con 'the plebs' into thinking that the solution to right-of-centre economics fucking-up their lives is
more hardline right-of-centre economics - the smashing of 'burdensome' regulation, perpetuating the utter myth of trickle-down, cutting business taxes (the lie that businesses will then invest that money not paid in taxes into more jobs). Their second is the age-old diversionary tactic; diverting the focus of 'blame' for their shitty lives away from the tax-dodging billionaires and towards demonised organisations that they view as a threat to their vast wealth (eg, the EU and other supra-national regulatory bodies; trade unions that allow workers to unite to fight the billionaires) and groups of people who they know they can easily trigger bigotry against (immigrants, wokeist lefties, LGBTQ people, etc)
Their smoke and mirrors cannot last, as their socio-economic model will make things even worse for the majority.
The problem is, these vermin are so psychotic that by the time enough people realise they've been suckered, it could be too late, and they will have dismantled the organs of democracy that protect against tyrannical dictatorships.
Meanwhile, 'the left' adopt more and more right-of-centre economic policy, and allow themselves to become mired in trivial, irrelevant crap like gender and identity politics.
