If you'd like a preview of what's to come when you run an austerity regime for the people and handouts to corporations with no oversight, don't look up, look down.

Don't cry for Mille, Argentina.

Before there was Doge, there was Javier Millet, who was so enamored with Donald Trump, he consulted with the same hairstylist.

You know, Argentina is the southern laboratory for the United States.

Mille is the guy who campaigned with a running chainsaw, which I will grant you as an effective

prop, and he won big because of all his histrionics.

Argentinians delivered him a mandate to fulfill his campaign promises to crash the peso,

fire tens of thousands of government workers, gut public subsidies for electricity, gas, public transit,

universities, pensions, and disability benefits.

He called his own central bank a criminal enterprise, refused to meet with

the Pope at the time. Who was Argentine, by the way? Because the Pope was insufficiently libertarian.

Millet and Trump are birds of a feather. Same playbook, blow by blow. Blame it on the last guy,

promised paradise on the other side.

Stuff the pain down the throats of the people who are least able to push back and then personally capitalize on the gains and the favor that's delivered to the corporate class.

And look, while it might seem distant, Argentina's like a snow globe. It's a little self-contained universe with a blizzard going on

inside that kind of tells us how things are going to play out here.

All right, let me start by giving me lay his due. The Argentina that welcomed him to lead it was in dire straits.

And any rational person would be hard pressed to defend the institutional bloat and the reckless

financing maneuvers and systemic corruption in Argentina. And you have to call balls and strikes

on this stuff. When Mille took office in December of 2023, Argentina was a basket case.

Monthly inflation was running at 12.8%.

That's not annual.

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