Roger Cohen hates and detests Javier Milei, and all that he stands for. The New York Timesman acknowledges that the President of Argentina has “cut inflation to 32 percent from over 200 percent annually; and produced a budget surplus in a country where, in 110 of the last 123 years, there was a deficit.” He concedes that “Milei inherited a 54 percent poverty rate” and that “the official poverty rate has been almost halved to 28.2 percent,” although he casts aspersions on the accuracy of that latter statistic. This man is practically a miracle worker. Yet, Mr. Cohen is determined to drag him into the mud. Why? I speculate that he views Milei's success as a rejection of the bigger government that Cohen has long been comfortable with.
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