No, President Milei, Orbán is most certainly not your guy
Dear President Milei,
We’ve never met, and I’m unsure if this letter will ever reach you. Let me say I’m a fan of you. Maybe I'm not as steadfast a libertarian as you are, but I also firmly believe in free and fair competition, a limited role for the state, and open markets.
I also admire your drive and determination to end the decades of state capture to dismantle the Behemoth of bureaucracy the corrupt regimes of Argentina have built over decades. I dearly hope you can continue your endeavors, elevating Argentina to a leading American power as it once was. Also, I think Maradona was better than Messi.
I like how you oppose leftist agendas with a somewhat lesser but still present enthusiasm. While social justice and equality are paramount for any successful nation, I think the empty pursuit of political correctness, the binding of free markets with rules that only serve virtue signaling, must be challenged everywhere and every time.
Sometimes, my readers (I produce a relatively popular Hungarian politics blog and podcast) scold me when I don’t stamp on Donald Trump’s, Giorgia Meloni’s, or indeed your actions as mainstream political opinion would dictate it. I firmly believe in commenting on content, not the person.
This is why I was flabbergasted to learn that, in a speech at the World Economic Forum, you opposed global wokeism and listed Viktor Orbán among your allies.
Viktor Orbán is not your ally. While he speaks against wokeism, he is everything you stand against. He is Perón, he is Menem, he is Kirchner.
He is a ruthless oppressor of free speech. His cronies own 99% of Hungarian newspapers, radio, and TV stations. He spends billions on propaganda. He owns, through intermediaries most of the Hungarian economy.
He turned this country into the second poorest and the most corrupt one in the EU. His cronies and his party’s vast organization are everywhere. He has just sold a significant chunk of Budapest to some Dubai investors for peanuts.
He rewrites the law almost daily to protect his power and business interests.
He works with Putin to undermine European efforts to support the freedom of Ukraine.
He is everything we conservatives oppose. He suppresses competition, controls every business, and has built a government with hundreds of undersecretaries and special envoys. With our taxes, we pay someone in the government “to promote singing more folk songs.” We buy him a nice black sedan, a secretary, and a corner office somewhere.
Are you sure you want to be in the same boat with this man? I think not. I’m pretty sure you will get an invitation to Budapest soon. I do hope you will accept it. Just do me a favor and stop at a small corner deli, a car dealership, at a school, or anywhere, and ask Hungarian people about your anti-woke ally. You will hear stories you heard countless times in Buenos Aires, and you will learn that Orbán is not our Milei; he is our Perón.
Yours truly
Sandor Esik
Nem Millei a neve, hanem Milei.
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