Conservative economic policies always fail!

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by Miserable-Lizard

26 comments
  1. It worked as intended. Now Argentina is owned by Trump. Trump tower soon.

  2. Clearly not true. 

    If you look at the reddest states where Republicans had supermajority control for decades you’ll see the great success of GOP policy. 

    Vibrant economic powerhouses like Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia wouldn’t exist without Republican political brilliance. 

  3. Nothing says free markets like a foreign government buying $20B of your currency to prop it up.

  4. I think the fall in the peso has more to do with fear that the Peronists will come back into power and start recklessly spending again

  5. The Republican model, get someone else to pay for your failures

  6. Being a revengeful creep he shall order these “criminals” beheaded as soon as possible

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  7. Only in American politics is this conservative. Global politics equates free market capitalism with liberalism.

  8. Stop calling these clowns conservatives… not sure what they are but tearing down everything for personal enrichment isn’t conserving anything.

  9. The conservative far-right economic policies like the ones Melei pushes in Argentina have a funny way of failing… almost every time.

    Look at Russia and Eastern Europe after the USSR collapsed

    Economists like Jeffrey Sachs pushed rapid privatization, deregulation, and shock therapy, claiming it would create instant prosperity

    What happened instead? Hyperinflation, mass unemployment, inequality skyrocketed, and oligarchs got rich overnight. The ordinary people got… well, nothing.

    This pattern repeats everywhere slash social programs, open markets too fast, ignore inequality, and the economy becomes fragile while elites profit. For the rich, it “works.” For everyone else it’s another predictable disaster.

    Everytime they promise “freedom for the market” and “less government

    in practice it simply mean handing over the country’s wealth to a few elites while leaving ordinary people to deal with inflation, unemployment and rising poverty.

  10. I was skeptical of Milei from the get go but it’s kind of disturbing how many critics of his type of economic policies were so desperate to see him fail/ Argentinians suffer economically just to prove a point.

  11. Milei is not comparable with Trump or MAGA.
    Neither is Argentina’s economy and the American.

    Argentina’s economy was severely sick, Milei’s initial plans and cutting down on costs, severely increased the markets trust, then the corruption scandal and in turn the loss of elections in Buenos Aires, completely U turned that trust. The people lost their trust in him, due to the corruption scandal, and the market lost their trust, because he lost the people and the political capital to continue bringing Argentina’s economy in a healthier state.

  12. That ass clown 🤡 is not conservative Ronald Reagan would bitchslap him for calling himself conservative

  13. The current president is fully responsible for today’s economic situation…. Unless the situation is great, in which case, it’s his predecessor who gets credit!!!

    The fact is, it’s much more complicated. I’m sure he’s done some bad, and done some good, but completely unfair to claim that his policies doomed an already doomed economy.

  14. Very disingenuous.

    Argentina is experiencing a currency crisis caused by an unsustainable currency regime triggered by a Peronist victory in the largest province.

    Milei was making great strides in opening markets and reducing poverty, inflation, etc. The lefty commies are winning back power in recent elections. The progress Milei made is DOA now. Investors are pulling out and the economy is in turmoil again. Lefties want to reignite the Peso printer and buy votes at the expense of the working class. I don’t support my taxes being stolen for any reason, I hope Argentina voters can see through the veiled bribes of the lefty scum and continue in their success. [https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250908-argentina-milei-electoral-buenos-aires-vote](https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250908-argentina-milei-electoral-buenos-aires-vote)

  15. Anyone who thinks 1 dude can fix 80 years of piss poor economic policy is smoking crack. In 2024 inflation peaked at 300%. To call it a failure after 1 year is nuts this could take decades.

    “Argentina’s interest rates are highly dynamic, but recent data from September 2025 shows the Interbank Rate at 68.97%, the Deposit Interest Rate at 46.95%, and a general Interest Rate of 29.00%, according to Trading Economics. “ -trading economics

    It’s 80 years in the making. Argentina had seven successful military coups in the 20th century: in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1976, and 1981, resulting in the interruption of democratic rule and establishment of military dictatorships during those periods.

    Each one seizing power from their previous predecessor, the country swung violently from far right to far left. The truth is economic recovery takes time. It took a long time to get sick, it’s going to take much longer to get better.

    I’m sure there will be another coup from some socialist general and the cycle will continue. At least inflation has dropped from 300% to 36% or something.

  16. Argentina’s economy has never been stronger and in record time. Absolute dipshit take.

  17. Milei has been pretty successful and lowered inflation in record time. The recent issues have been due to Peronist victories in some elections and they want to turn the money printer back on to buy votes at the expense of the working class.

    This post is completely ignorant of the socialist history of Argentina that has caused so many of their economic problems.

  18. You need to understand these policies are not conservative, liberal or libertarian. 

    These policies as always benefit the rich and powerful under the guise of partisan populism. 

    A truly conservative government wouldn’t have bailed out the banks and auto industry like Bush did. A liberal government would have passed a public healthcare option like Obama didn’t do. It’s just a big club and you’re not in it so you yell at your fellow voter who voted for a corporatist instead of an oligarch when in reality you’re fucked either way because it was rigged to begin with 

  19. And you were sleeping in reading comprehension. I didn’t say Manchin was a current senator. That would be the Republican who replaced the Democrat that voted with Republicans for 15 years. You are being extraordinarily disingenuous. It’s a conservative coal state that votes conservative. If you say different, you are flat out lying. Actually, you are flat out lying. To yourself.

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