The Argentine president will have to choose between moderating his mystical vein, Meloni style, or playing the knight of the apocalypse, Trump style. “Deus acima de tudo,” said Bolsonaro, God and Homeland resonates in the mouths of Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban.
‘Everything good that exists is due to Christianity,’ said Murray Rothbard, Milei's favorite. The West is sick, it is shouted everywhere. The diagnosis is reminiscent of the past: he is sick because he has abandoned his roots. The symptoms are the same as always: individualism, relativism, secularism. The recipe? Moralize, unite, believe. Is God dead? It must be resurrected. Seen this way, the Pope's embrace of Milei is more understandable. It is an old story, one more stage in the effort to Christianize liberalism, as if illiberalism did not itself have Christian roots.