Journalists keep using that word democracy, but I don’t think they know what it means.

They tell us that voting for someone they don’t like will destroy democracy. It is hard not to root for the populist over the elitist.

But we have seen populists rise and disappoint conservatives. Boris Johnson hit all the right notes too but delayed enacting Brexit for as long as possible.

Don’t buy what the media is peddling about him. The proof of Milei’s threat to the globalists is in the hands of the prosecutors. Trump faces 91 counts in four kangaroo courts. Italian prosecutors went after Silvio Berlusconi as well. No excitement without an indictment.

But Milei is a minor character at present. The big story was once again a country has used the ballot box to assert itself against the globalist wave of a world run by bureaucrats and billionaires who see humans as objects.

[I remain as skeptical as Don does, but for other reasons. The Argentinians keep flip-flopping between the Peronists, socialists, and “anarcho-capitalists,” whatever that means. (Capitalism relies on and provides stability, not anarchy.) Milei is just the latest version of expressions of dissatisfaction, and given the deep economic troubles Argentina faces now, he’s just as likely to end up being blamed for whatever comes next. Let’s wait to see what unfolds. — Ed]