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by _chompsky 939 days ago
Javier Milei has close to 0 representation in any level of government apart from the executive: can you please explain how he is going to get literally anything done, let alone “offer a quality standard of living to tens of millions of Argentineans” ?
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Use the bully pulpit and massive propaganda resources of the government to hammer his opposition. Use the levers of executive power to find ways to implement his agenda without the legislator, just as Biden does in the US with split congress. And finally caucus with the conservative parties who openly backed him.
> bully pulpit

That's the one thing that gives me hope in this.

His mandate is about the economy. Not social issues. He may rant about sex ed and libtards and all that, but everybody knows he was elected to fix hyperinflation. He and the more centrist parts of the government may be able compromise and come up with solutions for that.

> the levers of executive power

This is what I worry about. I don't know much about division of powers in AR, but anything he can do unilaterally will likely be batcrap like sabre-rattling at "communist" trading partners.