Populism is being blamed for all manner of ills as leftists worldwide wage an increasingly unrestrained war to delegitimize heterodox opinion. They’re even attempting to smear mainstream conservative parties with the taint of racism and “white supremacism”. But in an honest accounting of the political damage done to date, argues Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, it’s the anti-populists who have the most to answer for.
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.
