"They are discussions of very cabotage people, I come from a very important international meeting,
I am not for the small stuff
."
The phrase was part of one of the many confrontations that President Javier Milei had in recent days with Ignacio Torres, governor of Chubut.
He said it in Washington, after participating in the Conservative Political Action Conference, a global meeting of “the right” where Donald Trump was the star.
The expression sounded familiar to a few first cousins of the famous
“Guys, we are at Harvard, please
. ”
"Those things are for La Matanza, but not for Harvard
," which Cristina Kirchner pronounced for posterity in September 2012. But what is really striking, as a
Clarín
colleague remarked , is that it was uttered by the President shortly after having held a strong controversy with Lali Espósito.
What would be the small amount?
A federal conflict that affects the destiny of billions of pesos or that an artist has been paid by the State for giving a show?
In truth, it was a new episode that
confirms a central aspect of what the Milei administration will be
: the administration will be accompanied by a constant and resounding hubbub, both on essential and secondary issues.
You have to set the agenda, and if it is shouted it doesn't matter.
The energy will be the same to fight for a mega DNU that mixes the repeal of the rental law with the labor reform, for the closure of Inadi or for the change of the traditional time of the opening speech of ordinary sessions before the Legislative Assembly
It is a style that, it is undeniable, until now has been extremely beneficial to him,
to the point that he seated him in La Rosada
.
Whether it is as effective for governing as it is for campaigning remains to be seen.
On certain occasions, noise will serve as a distracting element.
In others, it will simply be irritating.
In many, he will be celebrated by his legion of followers, for whom a confrontational attitude is synonymous with courage and determination.
The markets, for now, have been demonstrating their support for this policy of
showing themselves willing to fight with anyone in order not to give in on the fiscal adjustment
.
With the real excuse that he is an animal of another species, Milei always bets on being
disruptive
.
For better and for worse and whoever falls.
But as tennis players know, the risk of always playing the ball is throwing it out.
It is efficient to fight with the CGT or to expose (“principle of revelation”) some of the many wastes that the political class has built up over decades.
But by always going at a thousand, a maelstrom that Milei imported from his long experience in the networks,
he runs the risk of skidding badly,
as happened when he liked a post in X that made fun of Governor Torres by portraying him as if he had Down Syndrome .
For now, Milei seems immune to such mistakes.
It prevails that in the midst of the economic crisis there are numbers that would indicate that the path is the correct one and, above all, the memory of the horrible government of Fernández, Cristina and Massa has not yet dissipated.
For now, rejection of caste kills unleashed prices and depressed salaries.
The key for the Government will be that: how long “for now” is equivalent to.