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Know Your Enemy Latin America correspondent David Adler returns to breakdown the (terrible) election results from Argentina, where Javier Milei, a deranged disciple of Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, and Austrian economics, who consults his cloned dogs for political advice and promises to tear down the Peronist state with a chainsaw, has won the presidency.

David is the General Coordinator of the Progressive International, and despite what he tells people at parties, unrelated to Sam.

Further Reading

Quinn Slobodian, "Monster of the Mainstream," New Statesman, Nov 20, 2023

Murray Rothbard, "wing-populism.pdf">Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement,"  Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Jan 1992.

John Ganz, "Murray Rothbard's America," Unpopular Front, May 30, 2022.

Manuel García Gojon “Will Argentina’s Next President Be a Rothbardian?” The Mises Institute, Jul 4, 2022. 

Philipp Bagus, "Javier's Milei's Populist Strategy in Argentina Is Working," The Mises Institute, Sept 14, 2023.