Ranting and raving about leftists, shifting his wife on stage, swinging a chainsaw around like Leatherface: Argentina’s new president Javier Milei is interesting. Looking in as a non-Spanish speaker, it’s hard to know what to make of him. He gets called Argentina’s Trump because he’s populist and right-wing. But that seems off to me. He seems more like a true-believer libertarian — the kind you might meet at university. Trump didn’t care about ideology. Argentina is a dysfunctional place and Milei is an oddball. So the new administration’s prospects do not look propitious. But whatever about Milei’s values or the…

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