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With the same logic with which the two coalitions running the country and its provinces for the last 20 years disown their misrule, while living immersed in their eternal infighting instead of maturing towards state policies of sustainable development and economic distribution, neither do they feel responsible for having fed the Javier Milei phenomenon.

Taking him as a Godzilla of politics (to equate him with the Japanese comic monster destroying everything in his path), they have bet on his presidential candidacy proving to be a sham that as the months go by, he will be taken to be a fictional character, becoming merely media popcorn entertainment.

Similar global phenomena have been similarly underestimated, such as the cases of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro or the rise of far-right leaders in Italy, France, Spain and Chile, to give some well-known examples. That will not happen here, Argentine leaders say with a certain bravado, having seemingly forgotten the begone with them all attitude of 2001 and the historic electoral atomisation of 2003 with barely 10 percentage points separating five leading presidential candidates (Carlos Menem, Nstor Kirchner, Ricardo Lpez Murphy, Elisa Carri and Adolfo Rodrguez Sa).

To such amnesia should be added rashness. Some sectors of the ruling Frente de Todos coalition even cheer Milei on, according to the strategic logic that the libertarian basically expresses an opposition vote, thus bleeding into Juntos por el Cambios support base and permitting the government to be more competitive.

That perhaps explains why on various occasions the government has brought him to the fore as a wake-up call. The most recent and it will not be the last time was when President Alberto Fernndez somehow compared him to Adolf Hitler on Radio Perfil.

This self-seeking exercise is not just theoretical and dialectical. In different parts of the country (Chubut, Salta, La Rioja and others) and especially Buenos Aires Province (where at least 40,000 scrutineers will be required), the construction of Milei feeds off many Peronist leaders and contributions of obscure origins, enmeshed with the caste against whom he proclaims combat so much.

Juntos por el Cambio has taken note of this process after a fashion. To seduce Milei supporters, they harvest liberal thinking, advancing towards an agreement with Jos Luis Espert in Buenos Aires Province, similar to that already rehearsed in Buenos Aires City with Lpez Murphy in the 2021 midterms. At the same time, certain leaders close to Macri, especially Patricia Bullrich, are accentuating their winks in public (while multiplying them behind the scenes) towards the libertarian leader.

Amber lights (an appropriate enough colour) have started flashing in PRO over such tactics. The oppositions qualitative analysis of public opinion is sounding the alert that if Bullrich is defeated by Rodrguez Larreta in the PASO primaries, there is a risk of the defeated candidates voters flocking to Milei. Even frustrated leaders could mutate, as national deputy Omar De Marchi is threatening to do in Mendoza.

The alarms over the opinion polls have also sounded in the hapless electoral labs of the government when infighting gives them a breathing-space. Its not just about the growth in the voting intentions for the leader of La Libertad Avanza the move of Peronist support is being consolidated, especially in the most neglected areas of Greater Buenos Aires while projections are beginning to appear placing him in the run-off instead of Frente de Todos.

In the responses of potential voters, which are often difficult to obtain, concepts of liberty or the state as the enemy, themes highlighted by Milei early on in his candidacy, do not arise. What does appear, and is growing all the time, is social fatigue and the idea of punishing much of the political class. The recent act of aggression against Buenos Aires Province Security Minister Sergio Berni after the murder of a bus-driver has been interpreted within this framework by some circles of power, over and above the intricate conspiracy theories which Kirchnerism and its satellites put forward.

Milei expresses a civic Im fed up with unpredictable consequences. It would suit politics to take him seriously and stop playing with fire.

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Libertarian economist and presidential hopeful Javier Milei, leader of coalition La Libertad Avanza, said on the radio this morning that he would be willing to compete in a primary election for the presidential nomination against former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich within a potential new coalition this year.

Its too late [to run as Bullrichs vice president] but its not so late to create a new space and compete against each other, he told Radio Rivadavia this morning. Theres still time.

Milei has been planning to run as the only candidate for his coalition, and recent polling suggests he could make it to a second round in the presidential elections.

The economist got into an online fight last night against Elisa Carri, a founder of the main opposition coalition Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) and leader of its member party, Civic Coalition, who said on TV that ex-president Mauricio Macri is not seeking to preserve the unity of the coalition but rather focusing on creating alliances with Milei.

He retweeted her message and said: traitors, these are the caste politicians in Argentina. Youve been hanging from Macri for twenty years to steal positions, and now you spit at him. Nothing good can come out from them.

Milei, who has positioned himself as an outsider, refers to career politicians as the caste (la casta). He is famous for raffling off his government salary because he sees receiving cash from the state as illegitimate, and has claimed that if he were to become president, hed burn down the Central Bank.

I find traitors irritating, he said on Radio Rivadavia. Later, he added: I wouldnt run with JxC, but Ive said before I would have no problem in meeting them in a new structure.

He said that, if he were to compete against other PRO candidates within a new coalition, he would accompany whoever won the presidential election if he didnt win the nomination. However, he said he was not willing to run as vice president to Patricia Bullrich, the candidate furthest to the right who is running for JxCs presidential nomination so far.

A deputy since 2021, Milei advocates for minimal State and the elimination of taxes and currency policies. His party opposes social movements and demands like feminism, climate activism, indigenous rights, and social welfare programs for the most vulnerable.

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Milei says he would join forces with Bullrich and Macri - Buenos Aires Herald

Elon Musk says any parent or doctor who 'sterilizes' children 'should go to prison for life'

FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco on Jan. 24, 2023. Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been quite painful but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

In response to an argument that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is "destroying an entire state" with his GOP-favored policies, which include the banning of sex change surgeries for kids, billionaire Elon Musk said that those facilitating the sterilization of children should be harshly punished.

MSNBC columnist Michael Cohen argued in an opinion piece on Wednesday that DeSantis's policy agenda in the state is "defined largely by pettiness, cruelty and a disturbing disregard for basic democratic norms." Cohen adds that if states are "the so-called laboratory of American democracy, then Florida is the meth lab of American democracy."

Examples of DeSantis policies that Cohen finds an issue with include the governor's pushback against Disney and its "woke ideology," the banning of teaching critical race theory in schools, and the banning of gender discussions in public Florida elementary schools.

In response to Cohen's article claiming DeSantis's "desperation for power" is ruining Florida, popular Twitter account The Redheaded libertarian quote-tweeted the article on Thursday, mocking itby insisting MSNBC was claiming DeSantis was destroying his state by not allowing kids to get sex changes.

Then, early Friday morning, Musk wrote on his social media platform Twitter that "Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life," in reply to the Redheaded libertarian's post.

Musk has been historically critical of "gender-affirming care" for minors. The billionaire has a transgender daughter himself, but the two apparently have a rocky relationship. Musk's transgender child said that they "no longer" wanted to "live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form" when they were seeking a name change in 2022.

WhenMinnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan insisted that parents should "believe" their kids when they "tell us who they are" while advocating access to gender-affirming care in her state, Musk famously criticized her. He tweeted at the time that "every child goes through an identity crisis" but kids should still not be permitted access to "severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs."

While Minnesota's governor eventually signed an executive order protecting children's access to gender-affirming care, other states like Florida have banned it.

Tennessee, Utah and South Dakota are just some of the states in the U.S. that have passed legislative efforts which restrict minors from accessing gender-affirming care, which many critics call irreversible gender change treatments.

Elon Musk has spoken publically in the past about how he is in support of transgender people but dislikes the subject of pronouns and such.

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Elon Musk says any parent or doctor who 'sterilizes' children 'should go to prison for life' - WCTI12.com

NORTHUMBERLAND A Northumberland Borough man will appear on the ballot as a Libertarian for the special election for the 108th state House District on May 16.

Elijah Scretching, 24, a Marine Corps veteran, said he wanted to run for the office to continue to serve the area.

I believe anything in this world is possible with faith, hard work, and dedication, he said in a news release.

Scretching said he is married with a 2-year-old daughter. Scretching said he joined the military at 18 and spent most of his career oversees.

Scretching will join the race with Democratic candidate and Montour County Commissioner Trevor Finn and Republican candidate Shikellamy school Director Mike Stender.

The special election is being held for the House seat formerly occupied by state Sen. Lynda Schlegel Culver. Culver won a January special election to replace John Gordner in the 27th Senate District.

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Libertarian candidate will be on ballot for 108th House District race - Sunbury Daily Item

My guests today are University of San Diego philosopher Matt Zwolinski and Heterodox Academy President John Tomasi, authors of The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism. This is the definitive intellectual history of a movement that they argue began in recognizable form in the 19th century in Europe as a response to socialism and in the United States as part of the abolitionist movement. I liked the book so much that I blurbed it for Princeton University Press. We talk about virtually every aspect of libertarianism, including its strange lack of interest in the civil rights movement given its origin in abolitionism.

Today's episode was recorded in New York City before a packed house at a Reason Speakeasy, a monthly live taping of this podcast. I spoke with Zwolinski and Tomasi about major 20th-century figures such as Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Murray Rothbard, as well as the complicated and often-contradictory contributions each made to libertarian thinking. We also spoke about the rise of the Mises Caucus within the Libertarian Party, the seemingly complete rejection of libertarian ideas in the contemporary GOP, and whether the larger libertarian movement is ascendant or sputtering out.

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Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi: Who Owns Libertarianism? - Reason