Javier Milei did not arrive at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) with the chainsaw of his electoral campaign, but his words were sharp. Thursday January 17, the new Argentine president gave a unique lesson in economics. He intends to save the West which is heading towards ruin, not because of geopolitical unrest or climatic disorders, but because of its rampant Marxization, which irremediably leads to impoverishment. The State is not the solution, nor even the problem; he is the enemy to be defeated.
Reciting, with a machine gun flow, the breviary of integral libertarianism, he explained that “the main leaders of the Western world [avaient] unfortunately abandoned in recent years the idea of freedom in favor of different versions of what we call collectivism” – ideas that “lead inexorably to socialism and therefore to poverty”, he said. Throwing fascism, Nazism, nationalism and social democracy into the same bag, he claims to make the parasitic State useless. “You are heroes”he said to the businessmen in the audience, punctuating his diatribe with a vigorous “Long live freedom damn it!” »the main slogan of his campaign.
Shared between astonishment and a certain fascination, the audience hesitated, then applauded the performance of the actor who had just ruined in thirty minutes more than fifty years of efforts of the economic forum to give shape to an inclusive, responsible and responsible capitalism. well-mannered.
Europe threatened with marginalization
Fortunately, an hour later, Davos found his model student, with a much more suitable liberalism. On conquered ground, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, presented his “assessment”, six years after his last triumphant performance at the same platform. He praised France’s reform work which has reduced unemployment by creating nearly two million jobs, brought back factories, accelerated its decarbonization and created a champion of attractiveness in Europe which is multiplying start-ups in cutting-edge areas.
But this is not enough. The French president likes agendas so much that he multiplies them, for Europe, foreign policy, industry, energy, education and employment, repeating the announcements from his televised speech on Tuesday in Paris . An active president in the face of the disorders in the world which threaten Europe with marginalization.
Despite German reluctance, he wants to believe that a European pooling of investments in the form of a common capital market is still possible. Unlike his Argentine counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, as a good Frenchman, likes a strong State. He prefers “massive administrative simplification” with the chainsaw. To each his own style.