Javier Milei’s Pyrrhic Victory in Yesterday’s Elections in Argentina

My takeaway from Javier Milei’s victory in Argentine’ s congressional election’s yesterday based on today's NY Times article. Argentinians voted for the right-winger as a "lesser of two evil" type reaction. They have serious doubts about him, but they don’t want to go back to the old way of doing politics. Sounds familiar here in the U.S. Spoiler – I’m talking about people supporting Trump because they are disillusioned with the Democrats. Just like Biden’s candidacy was a fiasco for the Democrats, so was centrist Sergio Massa’s candidacy in 2023 for the Peronistas (previously Massa had even broken with the Peronistas to form his own party further to the right). In both cases the main electoral issue was inflation. And in both cases “tax the rich” would have been the solution.