I just find it odd that this guy is the first far right populist type that wants to kiss up to the US. Most of these types tend to say like US when Trump was in charge but Joaquin Phoenix here wants good relations with Biden too
Yeah, it's also kind of odd he reversed planned membership in BRICS and is pro-Ukraine.
Why? Center-right and right politics in Latin America have always been pro-western world. Latin America has to deal with this eternal identity crisis between being part of the west or our own thing and that discussion usually correlates to the right-left axis, especially in the most "European" regions like the Southern Cone.
And I wouldn't define Milei as a populist. Not at all.
Milei is absolutely a populist. Just swap out “oligarquía” for “casta”.
Yes, populism refers to a political
style and it's one that Milei embodies well enough (after all, he got the sort of electorate he did in the first round while running in the country which made of Populism™ its dominant political movement). Although I get the sense that his presidency will be less populist than his campaign.
