The Thanksgiving Miracle: Make Argentina Great Again (Updated: Also the Netherlands)
A funny thing happened the other day in Argentina. After 45 years of socialist rule, with Eva Peron glamorizing its brand, an underdog candidate, a Libertarian who promised to downsize government and move the Argentinian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, won the presidency. In fact Javier Milei and his party “La Libertad Avanza” won in a landslide victory over against a socialist incumbent: 56% to 44%. He said:
“Today begins the reconstruction of Argentina…the end of Argentina's decline. The model of decadence has come to an end. Argentina will return to its place in the world that it should never have lost. We are going to work shoulder-to-shoulder with all the nations of the free world, to help build a better world. Our key words are limited government, respect of property rights and free trade.”
Of course liberal media immediately defamed him as a far-right risk to democracy, a Trump clone. Then these so-called journalists stopped covering him altogether. You would be forgiven for having heard nothing about this remarkable moment.
But if you have any doubt of his intention, watch this clip of Milei demonstrating how he plans to shrink a bloated government. It features him at a white board, stripping agencies that will be eliminated. Sports and Tourism, out. Ministry of Culture, out, Environmental and Sustainable Development, out, Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity, out. Why? “The thievery of politics is over!”
With Argentina’s inflation rate at 143%, perhaps it is no accident that Milei won. Some in the US think conservatives will win as soon as the inflation rate gets worse, as soon as our economic situation gets worse. For my own part, I rejoice at the assertion of popular will, and see only promise in its example. Viva Argentina!
Tucker Carlson recently asked Milei if he had any advice for Trump. He said:
He understood perfectly that the generation of wealth comes from the private sector. The state does not create wealth; the state destroys it. The state can give you nothing because it produces nothing…Double down on .. the deals of freedom and refusing to give an inch to the socialists.”
Update: after writing this piece about Argentina on Wednesday, I woke on Thanksgiving to discover that the Dutch farmers, who produce half the world’s food and who last year revolted against their government’s attempts to cull their herds and destroy their crops in the name of green alarmism, had helped elect a conservative.
Geert Wilders won 35 seats in Parliament, giving him a shot at forming a government. Because he has called for the Netherlands to leave the EU, stop asylum for migrants or Islamic schools for their children, move the Dutch embassy to Jerusalem — and because of his blond hair — the media has dubbed him the Dutch Donald Trump.
But conservative protests against the socialist policies of the globalists — the United Nations that is anti-Israel, the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization that are seeking to erase human freedoms — are rising. In Spain, tens of thousands are flooding the streets week after week against a Socialist takeover. They too are disparaged by the elite media as “far-right.” Someday the propagandists in our news industry may see that voters are no longer heeding their fear-mongering.
Today I give thanks that we still have a country whose flags waves across the land. And we still have the moments, like this holiday, to teach the next generation — since the schools for the most are not — why America is so special. Dare I say exceptional?
During the autumn of 1621, at least 90 Wampanoag joined 52 English people at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, to mark a successful harvest. The English no doubt were grateful to learn how to navigate the new land. The Indians were eager for an alliance against rival natives. No matter their motives, they joined their destinies.
As we pause for Thanksgiving, I want to thank you for your support this year, such a difficult transition for me. I mourn not only Jeffrey, my beloved, but like many of you I ache for the damage done to our country, and to our very legacy as a beacon of democracy for the world. All we can do is channel hope, and register our objections.
In the face of a full-on police state, I know it’s risky. I worry too.
But I believe that silence only makes us weaker. That is why I write Make Orwell Fiction Again, and why I am grateful for readers like you who read, and share, my work.