“We cross the border every day because shopping there is cheaper, we go to Brazil every day and we buy there, but we have little time left. Look, Lula is here and he’s going to ruin everything .” This happened a few months ago on Argentine television: a Milei voter who couldn’t fill his refrigerator had to go to Lula da Silva’s Brazil to be able to buy what he couldn’t buy in his country ; However, I couldn’t see what anyone else was inferring without spending more than two seconds; idealism has consumed materialism.
“A man with strange hair and aberrant, stupid speech wins the election with a large majority.” When this title appears once, it is an anecdote; When it is repeated several times and in several countries over a few years, it becomes a symptom. Since Tuesday, we have seen that, at least outside the United States, Trump’s victory is an ideological defeat for the rest of the West.
