Javier Gerardo Milei, Argentina’s President-elect, is the new face of punk-rock-politics.

The unmarried, former soccer player, economics professor, singer, and TV celebrity won 55.7 per cent of the vote – knocking leftwing progressives off the leader-board, and out of office.

Reuters recalled the ‘miracle win’ (Milei’s words) saying ‘hundreds of supporters gathered in downtown Buenos Aires’ cheering, ‘Out with them all!’

Milei, 53, is popular with younger voters, who, as implied by some news outlets, see his election as a much-needed ‘yes’ to Argentina and ‘no’ to the country’s inept left-leaning, and domineering political elite.

Of these reports, some have put Milei’s win down to the ‘protest vote’.

‘While there are those who are fervent supporters, some were merely expressing disgust with the long-dominant Peronist coalition,’ it was said.

These are voters fed up with the false promises of establishment socialists and spineless conservatives – especially their ‘inability to halt Argentina’s cycle of deficit, borrowing, money-printing, and inflation’.

Enter Javier Milei.

The Gen-X Argentine anomaly is a working-class Buenos Aires native who has ‘dabbled in football’ and was the frontman for a Rolling Stones cover band before becoming an economist.

A post-grad prolific author and TV commentator, Milei infers that he was thrown into the vocation by Argentina’s doomed socialist economy.

Milei says he ‘didn’t come into politics to lead lambs, but to wake up lions’.

When speaking with Tucker Carlson in September, Milei said, ‘Argentina’s socialist economy doesn’t work.’

Javier Milei in Buenos Aires. Enemy of the Washington Post and probably the next president of Argentina. pic.twitter.com/JUXGOpYLzw

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 8, 2023

‘The idea, where there is need, there is a right, is problematic. This is because there’s a conflict between infinite needs and finite resources.’

Contra to socialism, ‘This conflict is easy to resolve through economic freedom, and private property.’

Government just has to get out of the way but, according to Milei, ‘…the socialists don’t much like the invisible hand [of the free market], they prefer the claws of the state.’

‘They hide behind the discourse of social justice – this sort of social justice is deeply unjust because it’s premeditated by unequal treatment under the law,’ Milei explained to Tucker.

During the interview, the now President-elect, rejected gender ideology, fringe social justice, and called abortion murder.

He told Tucker that as a Catholic and libertarian, ‘We believe in the unrestricted respect for the lives of others, rooted in a principle of non-aggression, and the defence of life, liberty, and property.’

‘One of the most fundamental aspects is to defend the right to life.’

In the video seen by over 422 million people since airing on Twitter, Milei alluded to the idea that the Pope was a hypocrite for supporting Marxist dictatorships.

He also labelled socialist ‘architecture’ garbage with ‘Soviet characteristics’.

He then warned Americans to reject the political embrace of socialism, said climate change was part of the socialist agenda, and encouraged Donald Trump to keep fighting for freedom.

Like Trump, Milei backs Israel and has plans to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem.

Congratulations to the new Argentinian President, Javier Milei

Milei is a strong backer of Israel, and has vociferously condemned Hamas’s October 7 terror attack on the Jewish state.

In a recent interview with The Times of Israel, he cited an Argentine rabbi as his spiritual… pic.twitter.com/GkqWTIEJsf

— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) November 20, 2023

Asked if he turned to prayer to guide him, Milei declined to answer directly, instead saying that he ‘has people praying for him, and that brought him joy’.

The tame Tucker interview is a contrast to a fired-up Milei telling an Argentine interviewer:

‘You can’t give s*** left-tards (all kinds of collectivists) an inch. If you give them an inch, they will use it to destroy you. You can’t negotiate with them.’

Chiding the Left for operating on a platform of double standards, he added, ‘They protect their own.’

Perhaps proving Milei right, most legacy media coverage contained bias before mentioning anything beneficial about his plans for the nation.

Attempts to steer the narrative in favour of the Left were almost endless.

For the average Joe looking for information on Milei, the narrative is clearly fixed towards steering them Left.

None of the stuff of substance he talked to Tucker about was mentioned even though that primary source is not hard to find.

Search engines fired up and first-page recommendations were dominated by Woke op-eds downplaying the man with increasingly outrageous allegations that include claims that he is unfit for office.

The Left have learned nothing from 80s bands using ‘shock treatment’ to sell albums.

Attempting to delegitimise Milei’s potential as President legitimises the new Argentine leader’s Punk-esk political edge.

The irony is rich!

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