Argentina's Milei: "At some point people are going to die of hunger, and they are going to decide not to die"

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2. Milei has made a sport of inflicting cruelty on people - and his point is that people will fend for themselves

So - why should the state intervene?

It's a very extreme (and coked-up) version of what you always hear from Republicans.

And like Trump in 2016, it actually helped get him elected - because he convinced many voters (mainly younger men) that "all your problems are because there are millions of parasites living off your hard-earned money!"

But now that real wages have plummeted by over 25% in six months - and everything from industrial production, to business investment and retail sales falling by almost as much - a lot of voters are having second thoughts about the guy the affectionately called El Loco (The Madman).

Elections have consequences - and this one will take years to recover from (in a country that had already gone through a lot).