The electorate in Argentina and the Netherlands have shown a growing support for right-wing populist candidates in recent elections, reflecting a shift away from progressive politics.
In Argentina , the electorate voted in an unknown guy, Javier Milei, a right-winger with wild hair and even wilder ideas. The overwhelming choice of the outsider was an angry reaction to the nation’s economic crisis that has seen real declines in GDP, inflation soaring to near 140% and currency reserves at record lows. What was disturbing about the swing to the populist right was that Milei had the overwhelming support of the youth, who are usually drawn to more progressive ideas.
A demonstration of where he stands was that, among the first to congratulate him were Brazil’s former nutcase president Jair Bolsonaro and the equally lunatic Donald Trump, who said in his message that Milei would make Argentina great again. In the Netherlands, once a bastion of progressive politics in Europe, the right wing is entrenching itself as the mainstream. The conservative, anti-immigration and anti-Muslim Gert Wilders’ Party for Freedom was the runaway victor in the parliamentary elections, eclipsing the centre-right party and the green/leftist coalitio
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