Historian E. Krause tells in El poder y el delirio that, while he was in Caracas, he watched H. Chávez ‘rule’ on television and remembered President P. Berman’s description: “He is radioactive, he has ten times more energy than a normal man. The same was said about Mao. These people don’t feel like people. “They feel like gods.”

For Krause, Chávez was a hero admirer (Bolívar, Fidel), not one of them. He knew this and was running away from that emptiness, through “a frantic race that has no end: a race towards illusory heroism”. Posing in front of the masses and the media, excessive shouting, bravado, plotting. Without him, the country and the world would collapse.

Crazy. The Unknown Life of Javier Milei and His Appearance in Argentine Politics (2023) is a book by JL González, in which he tells anecdotes about the ultra-liberal economist. Milei goes to an interview and talks non-stop about dollarization. Suddenly they show him a photo of Conan; He fell silent and then muttered, “There’s Conan, there’s Conan.” The death of his English Mastiff in 2017 devastated him and he relied on parapsychology and telepathy to communicate with it. He had five clones of Conan made, which he gives away as grandchildren.

The president of Bolivia criticizes the proposal of candidate Javier Milei to dollarize the Argentine economy

González reveals to us the eccentric but also suffering Milea. He sees Conan sitting next to ‘number ONE’ to protect him. Milei talks to God and has seen the resurrection of Christ three times, and if in 1983 he dreamed of being M. Jagger, today he must fulfill the mission that God entrusted to him as president: “My great source of inspiration is Conan Milei, who “It made me encouraged me to discover the limits of the possible by daring the impossible.”

Several intellectuals find Milei irresistible with his emphatic gaze and gestures because he is selling a dystopian future: “Since we’re going to explode into a thousand pieces, let’s kill the man next to us so he doesn’t mess around.” They believe that he sublimates his father’s hatred in the state and politics; that he is broken and that his hatred sympathizes with angry people; that they are united by the “political radiation of hatred”; that Milei is not a leader but a symptom.

Posing in front of the masses and the media, excessive shouting, bravado, plotting.

Milei’s biography reflects the loneliness of an angry man, without friends or partners, bullied at school, humiliated and abused by his father. It’s the same in politics, warns González: when an idea is contrary to his, he gets upset, shouts uncontrollably, threatens. And just in case, always carry the same piece of paper with two words, Boss, so you don’t forget your mission.

Mr. Dessal comments in the digital magazine Zadig (August 23) that “the triangulation of delirium-religion-politics is very convincing” since it promises a cure for the misfortunes that plague us. He says that the movement that supported the candidacy of D. Trump was the New Apostolic Reformation, which is made up of ‘prophets’ who claim to maintain contact with God.

What drives Milei? N. Katzer asks in the same magazine: “If no one stays on their feet, (…) the solution, a faithful reflection of the narcissism of the times, is to act from the Law itself as an exception (…) for you liberals rule for me, My law- Miley.”

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