{"id":24201,"date":"2024-12-10T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energiesnet.com\/espanol\/?p=24201"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:16:45","slug":"trumps-new-favorite-milei-the-madman-michelle-goldberg-nytimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energiesnet.com\/espanol\/trumps-new-favorite-milei-the-madman-michelle-goldberg-nytimes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abTrump’s New Favorite: Milei, ‘The Madman'\u00bb – Michelle Goldberg\/NYTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Trump Has a New Favorite Foreign Leader. He\u2019s Known as \u2018the Madman.\u2019 <\/strong>(Magali Druscovich for The New York Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Michelle Goldberg <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Javier Milei, the wild-haired Argentine president known by his supporters as \u201cthe madman,\u201d has lately edged out Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orban as the MAGA movement\u2019s chief international inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has called Milei his \u201cfavorite president,\u201d and Milei was the first foreign leader to visit him at Mar-a-Lago after his victory. Last week, the Conservative Political Action Conference, which has increasingly sought to build a global network of right-wing activists and politicians, held its first-ever conference in Buenos Aires. Lara Trump, the president-elect\u2019s daughter-in-law, gave a speech lauding Milei\u2019s relentless budget-slashing, and vowed that, with help from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency, \u201cwe\u2019re going to do the same thing in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ascendence of Milei in Trumpworld is a sign of an important ideological shift on the right. Trump first ran for office railing against corporate America and rejecting the sort of entitlement cuts long dreamed of by Republican wonks like Paul Ryan, the former House speaker. \u201cI\u2019m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, and I\u2019m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,\u201d Trump said in 2015. After Trump won, Orban became an icon to a group of rising right-wing intellectuals less interested in fiscal discipline than in using the power of the state to remake<\/a> culture, reward friends and punish enemies. Conservatives like JD Vance often speak admiringly of the subsidies Orban\u2019s government gives families to encourage them to have more children; such spending<\/a> is more than 5 percent of Hungary\u2019s G.D.P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milei is a very different kind of right-winger. He\u2019s an arch-libertarian \u2014 except when it comes to abortion \u2014 who has four cloned mastiffs named after conservative economists. He believes that drugs should be legal, as should the sale of organs, and sees marriage as a contract that should exist outside of state regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since taking office a year ago amid devastating hyperinflation, he\u2019s undertaken a campaign of economic shock therapy, slashing government spending by around 30 percent. In doing so, as Jon Lee Anderson wrote in a recent New Yorker profile<\/a>, he\u2019s changed \u201cthe compact between the Argentinian state and its citizens \u2014 cutting cost-of-living increases to pensioners, funding for education, and supplies for soup kitchens in poor neighborhoods.\u201d In some ways, Milei is succeeding; inflation has plummeted. But the poverty rate rose by around 11 points during his first six months in office, to almost 53 percent, and the country has fallen into a recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the American right\u2019s admiration for Milei, you can see the rebirth of old-fashioned small-government conservatism in feral tech-bro form. Campaigning for Trump in October, Musk argued<\/a> that Americans need to accept \u201ctemporary hardship\u201d to reduce spending, and Ramaswamy recently called<\/a> for \u201cMilei-style cuts on steroids.\u201d It\u2019s far from clear how much policy influence Musk and Ramaswamy will actually have; the Department of Government Efficiency is just an advisory board, not a real department. But while Paul Ryan may be banished from Trump\u2019s Republican Party, some of the most unattractive elements of his politics have come roaring back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, has long dreamed of pulling up Social Security \u201cby the roots.\u201d In social media posts last week, he compared it to a \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d and called for \u201creal reform.\u201d \u201cInteresting thread,\u201d wrote Musk, boosting it. On Fox Business Network, Representative Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, said legislators need to have the \u201cstomach\u201d to make \u201chard decisions\u201d about entitlements, while his fellow congressional Republican, Mark Alford, called for raising<\/a> the Social Security retirement age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least in the immediate term, both Social Security and Medicare are probably safe, given the minuscule size of the House Republican majority. Plenty of other programs could, however, be on the chopping block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Republican Congress may cut<\/a> federal matching funds that helped states expand access to Medicaid, which covers low-income people and people with disabilities. Republicans are talking about imposing national Medicaid work requirements and checking recipient eligibility more than once a year, potentially burdening<\/a> people with more paperwork than they can keep up with. The G.O.P. is also looking<\/a> at ways to cut food stamps and to make it harder to qualify for them. Affordable housing programs could<\/a> be gutted, and Trump will probably roll back<\/a> what he can of Biden\u2019s student debt relief programs. New hardships, for many, may well be on the way. It remains to be seen how temporary they will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, observers, including me, have attributed at least part of Trump\u2019s success to his rhetorical break with the unpopular elements of conservative economic orthodoxy. His choice of Vance as vice president suggested he might be open to an expansion of the social safety net aimed at shoring up blue-collar families. But the American right\u2019s lionization of Milei indicates a different Republican path, one more congenial to the party\u2019s biggest donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milei, with his defiantly vulgar, anarchically anti-establishment style, has managed to build a working-class constituency for economic austerity, and to maintain it even as his policies start to bite. (His approval rating is currently a relatively robust 55 percent.) He\u2019s figured out a way to harness the insurrectionary energy of populism to the most elite economic program imaginable. This feat, such as it is, may not be replicable outside of Argentina, but it\u2019s understandable that our plutocrats would want to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Goldberg<\/em><\/strong> has been an Opinion columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and women\u2019s rights, and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual harassment.\u00a0The views expressed are not necessarily those of EnergiesNet.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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