Dear Argentinian, what are your feelings regarding Milei ?

90% of people here support him
90% of people on r/Republica_Argentina don’t, so you can also ask there

I think he’s doing a great job overall.

Ojalá hubiesen tenido toda esta curiosidad cuando nos gobernaba la dinastía Kirchner boludo.

I would say he came to political power due to his ‘antics,’ in a world where, to enter politics, you must go through a process where everyone owes something to someone, where you get in through ‘who you know.’ He got there in a different way, by being a media figure. That said, I don’t think he’s crazy (I mean, are we really going to use the word ‘crazy’ after progressive movements boast about normalizing absolutely everything, but when someone we DON’T LIKE does something out of the ordinary, we call them crazy?), he just has different ways of being, and that’s what got him to where he is.

That being said, what he’s doing in politics is highly commendable. He’s addressing the populist calamity that has made us one of the poorest countries in the world. He exposed that politicians are friends with each other and only argue for the TV cameras. As a supporter of liberal policies, I obviously like what he’s doing a lot. In fact, I see what’s happening in Europe (I live here) and I can’t stop telling my friends here that many of the policies being implemented in Europe, I’ve already seen them, I’ve seen them in Argentina. Only time will tell if he was really that ‘crazy,’ but based on what he’s doing, he’s normalizing a country that the left/progressivism ruined.

>He is really a crazy far right as all our french media described him ?

Yes. But a big part of it is theatrics. He proposed the destruction of the Argentine Peso, adopting the US Dollar as the official currency and the destruction of the Central Bank. None of that will happen, but helped on the show part of the campaign.

He is far right libertarian though, and I would argue he is the most far right president in the continent right now and in the last decade. Even Trump supported some level of protectionism over US industries (ban of tech commerce with China, social media, big fees to the imports of food; etc), meanwhile Milei is trying (and very successfully I might add) to remove most of the regulations to the imports of almost everything to companies (not persons though, but that may or may not come later). He seems to truly believe that everything will be better without the regulation of the State and only backtracks when there is a big backlash, like when he tried to heavily reduce the funds to public universities or when recently he drastically reduced the scope of the Right to the Public Information without going through Congress.

He is far more gifted as a politician than everyone anticipated. He successfully passed a tax reform, labor reform, modified or eliminated nearly 100 laws regarding different regulations on industries and created a new law to favor big investments (over 100m usd) with nearly 0% tax withholding. All of these changes were approved by the Congress where he has a minority, so his party negotiated a lot to get the things going. One of the biggest flaws that the opposition remarked during his theatrical campaign was that he was ver aggressive and bad at discussion or consensus; he (in my opinion) proved them wrong.

>What is your feeling regarding Milei and his politics ?

As I mentioned, he is far better in politics than everyone anticipated. He did more in 8 months than the previous president in 4 years and, so far, without commiting crimes (unlike the previous president).

I don’t like the way he is doing politics though. He is abusing the Decree of Urgency to levels never seen before in democracy. A DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) is a way for the president to rule something with the same authority as a Law without going through Congress. DNUs can only be passed during a National Emergency and the DNU has to be related with such urgency; the Congress can overrule a DNU but both chambers (Representatives and Senate) have to have majority to overrule it. Milei declared a “Economic national emergency” and started blasting DNUs left and right, modifying more than 300 laws from one day to the other without the Congress. The DNUs have immediate effect and the Congress usually takes several months to vote on the overrule of the DNU, so even at worst the DNUs are always effective for a few months. Because the national emergency is an “economic emergency” he basically modified everything with DNUs, from economic regulations to allowing Futbol Clubs to convert to privately owned companies, while the judicial argument was that “everything that moves money is under the national economic emergency” so under his interpretation, he can modify absolutely everything, because to no one surprise, in a capitalism everything is related or has a quantitative equivalent in money.

Let me be clear, every president in Argentina abused DNUs, all of them, but this is on the level of ruling without Congress. The modification to the Right to Public Information was with DNU and is a clear example of this (How is that related to a National Economic Emergency?)

He is pushing his own ideology and agenda over the country wellbeing (and so did the previous 50 presidents). He removed Argentina from the BRICS after being accepted; Argentina tried for decades to join the BRICS, and he just destroyed that agreement of free commerce between the countries of the block because he think they are communists and US wouldn’t like it.

However, by being as fanatic as he is, his radical approach to economy did wonders on reducing inflation, lowering it from 25% **monthly** to nearly 3% monthly with food inflation being less than 1% monthly. On the other side, poverty increased from 42% to 63%, indigency from 7% to nearly 20%, which is pairing with levels of the worst economic recession of the country history. There are no signs that this will get better in the short term and even the Minister of Economy is aiming for next year prospect to improve the economy.

He does have a more consistent and clear plan than any of his opponents and I believe that’s why he won and why he still holds a big approval rate. He is delivering on some of his promises, reducing regulations, reducing the size of the public administration and showing some really shady business that public servants were doing. People do like that and it shows that something is being done, even though the amount of money being saved by those changes may be negligible for the bigger economic crisis.

I think most policies are short sighted. For example the tax exemption to investments over 100m USD is mostly to add liquidity to the market, probably to lift the restrictions over foreign exchange (we call it cepo), but those big industries (copper mines, lithium mines, oil extractions; etc) will start their exports in probably 10 years from now, and when that happen, they will pay 0% on taxes. It is not clear how future management will finance itself, because any company that does not have this exemption (either because their investments are lower than 100m or because they did them before the law) will completely die, and those are the companies paying taxes. This is just one example of many, in my opinion, short sighted policies. I must add however, that short term crisis do required short sighted solutions.

As a bias notice, I didn’t vote for him and I’m against his ideology and way of doing politics. But he is still better than any of his opponents.

He’s good kind of crazy, the “going against established state mafia apparatus” kind of crazy, so far is considered the best president we had basically in all Argentina’s history, particularly due to the challenges he had to face and is succeeding at them. So the general sentiment is people love him and this is also a phenomenon of people outside our country too which coming from one of THE worst presidents we had (also arguably ever) is a very satisfying feeling

Some things are good, some things are shit and some other things don’t make sense. Tbf tho he is the best option we have, all the other are crap and this guy at least is doing something despite what the opposition says (which its not an opposition at this point, they are just doing whatever dirty method helps them reach the power again).

I also think people praise him a little too much and just say “yes” to whatever he says and then they are the ones criticizing kirchnerists for doing the same. Our country is full of hypocresy lol

Far right compared to what exactly?

Keep in mind that Macron would be perceived as conservative or center right in Argentina. A country that naturally defaults to the left, and a rather fascist one (Peronism).

Here are some points that are usually associated with the “far right” and Milei’s position on them:

**Nationalism and Anti-Globalism:** While slightly nationalistic, Milei is actually very much a globalist.

**Anti-Immigration:** Milei is not opposed to immigration and is not even a point in his agenda. He recently even invited more Venezuelan people to settle in Argentina.

**Identity Politics & Ethno-Nationalism:** Milei has never made racist remarks. Which is interesting considering he is not usually very measured in his speech. He is also against identity politics.

**LGBTQ Rights:** Milei has made comments, or rather tweets about how gender and queer theory are used to pervert children, and some members of his governments are opposed to using the word marriage for gay marriages (some weird mental gymnastics with the origin of the Spanish word Matrimonio referring to mothers). But aside from that there is no policy change towards the existing LGBTQ rights, which is quite far ahead of where Germany was just 7 years ago.

**Economic Protectionism:** Milei is diametrically opposed to protectionism and trade barriers.

**Skepticism to Climate Change:** Milei is skeptic about climate change.

**Christian Conservatism:** While technically a catholic, he has expressed his intention to become a Jew, he would also be considered a non-conservative Christian, because he has never been married and maintains relationships with unmarried and divorced women, he has also stated his rejection towards marriage as an institution. Milei is personally anti-abortion, but abortion bans are not even in discussion at the moment.

**Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism:** Milei is pro-Israel and pro Jewish. He has denounced Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations and angered Iran. This is very important because Argentina has suffered two terrorist attacks in the hands of Iranian militants.

**Opposition to Political Correctness:** Milei opposes political correctness.

**Authoritarianism:** While Milei has had a strong opinion on supporting law enforcement, he has very clearly rejected authoritarian regimes both locally and abroad. He would not be considered pro-authoritarian by any measure. He is also in favor of liberal democracy.

So out of these 10 points, you could say that he agrees with around 3 or 3.5, which then would make him right leaning, but quite far from a “far right” position.

Whether his government has been good or bad, is still up for debate and you are likely to get very polarized opinions, he still has A LOT of support and is unlikely that it will go down considerably because some things have improved, especially on Argentina’s primary issue: Inflation.

This has come at the cost of subsidy removal and spending cuts, but people are very aware that the previous method was unsustainable and leading us into much worse scenarios.

I personally think that he seems to be a transparent person, who is true to his ideas (for bad or for good), and I have hopes that things will improve if he is able to maintain the political stability. I think that liberalism is the solution for Argentina’s current problems and that implementing pro market reforms is the way out of poverty for the nation.

One would expect, at least from the french, the proper use of “far right”.

I guess some believe that rolling into Paris with tanks equates to speaking in behalf of the right of individuals to forge their own future while demanding the state to stay within republican lanes and refrain from invading every single aspect of people’s lives, private or not.

“Far right”, “liberals”… all terms shifted in their real meaning, and then peddled by the U.S media to separate people into opposing trenches… people who, of course, have little understanding what either term means. Goebbels would be surprised to see how prosperous his ideas are nowadays. He knew back them what we know now, that books, classics, hard earned internalized knowledge (which is more than reading), has become less common thanks to the media doing the heavy lifting for the masses.
Now, that “the media is the mesage”, the traditional media is just a dying beast trying very hard to stay alive. It cannot rattle it’s host too much with actual information and intead rides the inflammatory wagon , not because there’s an agenda, but because it has no alternative.

Milei is the same, he chose to ride the inflammatory wagon because it’s a means to an end, correcting Argentina’s insane economy.

I hope he’s right.

Cheers

Ps: event though its commonly use by U.S citizIns, argentinian is grammatically incorrect. It’s argentine, since Argentina itself is an adjective. Argentina is more like the word “french” than “France”. The name of my country, if it were France, would be “The French Republic”… and so, you would still call yourself french, not frenchian, right?

10/10

Yo lo vote xq no había otro, me gusta el rol de la justicia en cuanto la investigación de los corruptos en el gobierno anterior. En cuanto a su rol de líder deja mucho que desear.

He’s doing great so far.

Please can you display your prompt?

Salut et bienvenue chez nous !

I’m 33. President Milei is doing quite a good job in my opinion, possibly the best in my lifetime. His administration has definitely outperformed expectations—its performance being marred by misfires stemming from a lack of political acumen and experience.

The Milei administration is extremely ambitious and embraces radical change in all facets of society, business, law, and economics. The way inflation and the budget deficit have been curbed in less than a year is nothing short of outstanding. The administration’s communication with the general public is solid and appears consequential.

That being said, poverty and extreme poverty rates have skyrocketed, although this was expected. Milei’s laser focus on the economy and his fervent belief that every social phenomenon can be explained through economics is his Achilles’ heel.

The administration’s tone is inflexible, unwavering, and lacking in compromise, for better or worse. Decretos de Necesidad y Urgencia (DNUs, or Emergency Decrees) have been used more frequently than during any other administration—though it could be argued that this is due to obstruction by the opposition.

During this government I’ve seen my buying power reduced by half. Let’s see…

Yes, he is obviously far right. He promotes policies of austerity and claims any ideology that opposes them are “zurdos de mierda”.

But you could observe that from any of his major speeches. Why are you asking here? You’ll get a mostly biased, echo-chambered opinion as this sub already leaned quite right even before his ascension into power, and the support of him here is not in line with a general sentiment shared by the country.

For actual data on his image, you should look for statistics and the results of polls…

You’re asking on a pro Milei subreddit, so you won’t get unbiased answers.

It’s a fuckin clown. Like bolsonaro or Trump. The kids whoa supported are fakin assholes.

That sub is 90% co-opted by the hard core of milei militants and what is even more serious, by trolls paid by the government to defend the indefensible. They fill you with downvotes when you comment on data or link to an article with vital information for the citizen about the real state of the government. In short, you are going to get a super biased version here.

This sub is more like a Milei fan club, so I guess youre going to have biased answers too.

An anti nationalist that thinks corporate overlords are being robbed by taxes but believes it’s okay for poor people to use all their money paying them. He believes he is some kind of messiah trained by the spirit of his elderly dog.
He really doesnt make any decision, he just travels around the world visiting rich people parties to take some pictures with them for sharing in media. He spends all day on Twitter and delegates everything to her sister, a woman with no work experience since now.
In addittion, his vice president agenda is to free the dictators that killed thousands of people when Argentina got robbed of it’s democracy.

Fanatics here say that milei with save Argentina by just existing, they share Ai edited pictures of him looking like a Marvel superhero. Meanwhile, poverty keeps increasing with no end in sight.

La ironía, la mayoría de los comentarios explicando porque la mayoría de los comentarios van a ser de derecha.

1) This is sub is biased. A lot of people here are much of a zealot (and I suspect paid) as other subs with peronism. Their brigading at some point was insane and the would defend anything even when it reversed or made no sense. Pure hypocrisy, so, you will likely to see much of that, or bitter responses to it

2) The dude is…. can it be considered far right? Its a blurry concept….he is not nationalist in terms of supremacist or culturally or anything of sort but he is closer to nativism in the sense of “whats ours for us” (like discriminating when it comes to access to public stuff. Sometimes makes sense, sometimes it doesnt). He is also not a globalist because he refuses to play with others, but he wnats (but doesnt seem to understand how it works) free international market. He is reliigous and sometimes has even said quite crazy stuff (to the shock of no one). He is not against repression in the least, but he is not authoritarian (not that he showed it at least. Aside from it being obviously a direct antithesis to lbiertarianism but that he is definitely not outside of rhetoric). He does incites hate and polarization however and its quite dismissive. But he is also populist af (just aiming at a different public). He definitely is conservative socially imho but kind of selecively so or at least doesnt show it or cares all the time? So it is weird for me to say “far right” because the connotation to me is different, far more encompassing and detrimental. He is a polarizing right wing populist, that is for sure though, and that is my opinion on him as a politician itself

3) Now based on performance, it depends on who you ask. The good thing is that interest rates and inflation are lowER (emphasis in the comparative because it is still extremely high and we are already in september), That on itself and up to this point is enough to please many, and justifiedly so, making biased and genuine support be harder to spot. The bad thing thing is that literally everything else is significantly pointing in the opposite direction in practice and his rhetoric too in theory so the dude is a massive hypocrite in regards to anything even remotely close to campaigning. But yes, everything is significantl more expensive, recession has deepened a lot and nothing really recovered. The ugly, is that the good not only came at a huge cost, public and private and literal, but it was, again, not even remotely close to enough to dent the issues long term and there is nowhere else to take money from unless he keeps piling debt. Tax pressure is already ntot only high, and he even rose some taxes greatly, but also plants to lowers them (in theory) so not from there. Not from the GDP either becase recession is seriosuly bad with nothing even remotely close to something pointing towards recovery or investments which in either case it would take time he doesnt have. Not from budget cuts because he already did it quite heavily (seemingly indiscriminately and thoughlesssly too but while he could go deeper the way to do it without causing damage for real would be lenghtier and more systematic and he doesnt seem to point in that direction. That and changing the pension system to which I tell you the same). So, without enough money, the most likely scenario is that he will be pressured by the domestic economy to devaluate. If I had to put my finger on it, in the next 12 months or so

So, in the end, is he a good president? Hell no, you will be hard pressed to find a non partidary reasoning to it, objectively he is at most, a dissapointment. Is he the better candidate? That is far more debatable indeed, and the actual “argument” (is not) for many, but it would be pure speculation even WITH precedent (because of this) and is not an excuse for bad behavior which should be corrected by his own base from the get go. Is he the WORSE possible president and a death sentence? Absolutely not. I mean, even a dictatorship does things rights becuase otherwise they would not last the day but that is not the point, he could be far far worse given his colors, which presents the doubt of exactly how much of his image is real and how much is a political gimmick (not an apology from my side, just an attempt to understand the borderlin demential attitude of his). I ll tell you this though, as an economist, he leaves a lot to be desired both in theory and practice. Is not his position being president but he does show quit ea bit of short sighted and, as aforementioned, populist (like dollarization) discourses

About the far right part, most leftist call anyone who’s a capitalist a far right neoliberal nazi dictator.

So I wouldn’t even care what those shitheads have to say.

Milei is religious and kind of conservative, but he’s a libertarian so he believes in individual freedom to do whatever you want with your life.