Crime waves committed across Europe by “migrants” and authorities’ habit of punishing law-abiding citizens for pushing back are just two crises suggesting Europe’s fate hangs in the balance, asserts Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. Add to these debt-bloated governments, unsustainable social spending, feckless foreign policy and economy-choking regulations and, Hanson concludes, Europe’s path is increasingly diverging from that of a reinvigorated America.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
