Victor Davis Hanson observes Middle America’s past-boiling-point attitude toward the self-entitled power of elite money, certifications, degrees and virtue signalling. Ordinary people, Hanson observes in American Greatness, have seen through the charade over the past decade as the elites comprehensively shredded their own aura of competence. Symbiotic coexistence is gone, replaced by mutual contempt.
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.
