So give us the counter point? I like him, but this stuff seems pretty rough
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What stuff do you mean?
The recent news is that his party lost a crucial local election, and the market (correctly) perceived that as a warning sign that the extreme leftists who have driven the Argentinian economy into the ground for 3+ decades are quite likely to take back power, and so went into a complete tailspin. How does that reflect poorly on Milei?
Don't get me wrong there are a lot of negatives here. 1, neither dollarizing nor allowing a free market in Pesos is somehow finding the worst solution (a soft peg); eventually the market will attack it, and it's happened sooner than expected. 2. corruption cases involving his sister Karina, I'm not sure of the details but I get a very bad sense of that person (who was the key in the "Libra" fiasco). That stuff doesn't actually matter much imo but optics-wise it's a disaster. 3. well honestly there's no specific 3, I think everything else that hasn't worked well about Milei's tenure has all related to the fact that he does not have full political power, his party is smallish and new, he does not have control over the lower houses so has to use executive power to do anything substantial, and the other side of the debate is genuinely deeply (imo) evil; the classic south American disease of take all the country's wealth and give it to cronies (including helping the poor to be clear, but still stealing/cronyism - for which Kirchner has just been convicted btw, another story largely ignored byvWestern media), even though it has lead already to complete ruin, they want to keep doing it until they outcompete Venezuela.