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The Trump-like candidate is the better candidate. Freedom and national focus go together. It makes the globalist collectivists angry and they exploit that freedom to protest it.

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I have followed fiscal affairs in Argentina, since at least 2000. Argentina is a failed state. For better or worse (worse), Argentina gives Democracy a bad name. Of course, the military in Argentina is no better. The ‘solution’ is probably some version of foreign rule. Of course, Argentina is hardly alone in those respects.

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There are many political problems in Argentina. And one of the problems is that politicians are promising impossible things. In the case of Milei, he is trying to promote economic liberalism and individualism with social collectivism and conservatism. That is actually impossible in practice since social conservatism and populism often go hand in hand with economic issues as well. The more a person is negative towards pluralism, lifestyles and social change, the more one will demand government intervention against lower taxes, privatisation and global economic openess.

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