The liberals are losing their sleep over a groundbreaking presidential election victory for Libertarian Party candidate Javier Gerardo Milei in Argentina.
In Sunday’s runoff election, Milei defeated his left-wing opponent Sergio Massa, the current Minister of Economy of Argentina and a member of the left-leaning Union for the Homeland Party, by securing nearly 56% of the vote. This marked the widest margin of victory in a presidential election in the country since 1983.
Many conservatives and libertarians around the world are cheering Milei’s victory. President Trump congratulated the Argentinian President-elect in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Sunday evening. He wrote: “I am very proud of you. You will turn your Country around and truly Make Argentina Great Again!”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111440038805302597
On Twitter/X, popular conservative account End Wokeness shared a video clip of Milei’s interview with media wherein he is seen giving some spirited commentary on beating the left. The tweet commended Milei for having “zero tolerance for the woke left.”
But not all anti-globalists are holding their breath over Milei’s victory. Some have pointed out that Milei is on board the core agenda of the globalist “Deep State” and is not a true “outsider.”
Stew Peters took a jab at Milei for waving an Israeli flag instead of his own country’s flag.
However, it’s the political and cultural left that was literally left in tears on Sunday night when Milei was declared the winner of the presidential election. In his comment on a video showing the Argentinian liberals crying in a public gathering, Jack Posobiec wrote:
“Leftists in Argentina are in TEARS tonight, sobbing as their 40 years of rule has come to an end.”
Not unexpectedly, left-leaning papers in the west resorted to language that demonizes Milei, much like they have been doing to Donald Trump in the United States. The Guardian described Milei as a “notoriously erratic figure” with “radical ideas” and wrote that his leftwing opponents have “reacted with shock and dejection” to his election victory. The story also cited Colombia’s leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, commenting:
“The extreme right has won in Argentina … [It is] sad for Latin America.”
The Week introduced Milei to its readers as a “Chainsaw-wielding Trump admirer” while Business Insider wrote that Milei’s victory is “a triumph for Tucker Carlson” referring to the September interview of Milei on Carlson’s show.
“His victory was propelled by conspiracy theories, media stunts, and a pledge to crack down on Argentina’s spiraling economic woes with radical measures, such as adopting the US dollar as the national currency.” Far-left opinionated news site HuffPost went on say that Milei is viewed by the public as “crazy” and called the “wig” owing to his “ferocity and unruly mop of hair.”