The drug of statism is coming to an end

They tried to bring down a Government over a city council election. They nationalized a provincial result. They once again underestimated Javier Milei, the same person they called a "neighborhood phenomenon" during the campaign and who now has them on their knees before the common sense of a people who decided to say enough. They won a local election, smelled blood, and launched a 24x7 operation to destroy the national government. They dreamed of the Legislative Assembly, of the helicopter, of returning to power to rescue their privileges. They were left wanting.

There were eight months of constant siege, apocalyptic headlines, media operations, and conspiracies disguised as "institutional concern." But reality ran them over. The people, last Sunday, turned their backs on them and validated the course. Because despite the forecasts of disaster, poverty is beginning to fall, inflation is being crushed, and the economy is showing signs of life after two decades of impoverishing socialism. Milei not only stabilized the macroeconomy, but also started the engine of growth on the strongest foundations: fiscal order, confidence, and freedom.

Kirchnerism and its satellites—that parasitic network that lives off fear and spending—can't stand to see a country moving forward without them. They are pained by others' success. It pains them to see that Argentina can breathe without a state respirator, that it is possible to produce, invest, and progress without ministries dictating what, how, and how much. They torpedoed the economic program because the country's recovery takes away the only narrative they had left: that of failure as an inevitable destiny. Without inflation, without deficit, and without a narrative, Kirchnerism is left without oxygen. That's why they constantly resort to chaos, resentment, and lies.

There was political and media sabotage from day one. Meanwhile, as the numbers turned around and the world applauded the transformation, they played at collapse. They can't stand that Argentina is becoming credible again, that markets are reacting with optimism, that investments are returning, and that indicators are stabilizing. Today, after the elections, the "country risk" collapses, bonds and stocks soar, the rate drops, and the dollar stabilizes within the bands. There is no technical basis to explain this euphoria, except one: the certainty that Argentina has returned to the right path, that of effort and freedom.

Milei broke the cycle of statism, whether right or left, that immoral drug that numbed entire generations with subsidies, clientelism, and blackmail. By doing so, he exposed the worst addiction of our political class: the need to control, to decide for others, to turn the citizen into a subject. For years, they made us believe that without the state there is no nation, when in truth it is the other way around: without free citizens there is no possible nation. The bigger the state, the smaller the individual. The more taxes, the less freedom. The more regulation, the less progress.

What is underway is not a simple economic program: it is a cultural change. A moral revolution against the lies, parasitism, and hypocrisy of a political elite that confused compassion with dependence and solidarity with looting. This transformation is measured not only in numbers, but in values: work instead of subsidy, merit instead of privilege, responsibility instead of victimhood. Argentina is regaining its self-esteem, and that is what most irritates those who lived for decades off planned misery.

Months ago, we said that 34% for "La Libertad Avanza" was the floor and that 48% for Kirchnerism was its ceiling. They called us crazy. They said we lived in Narnia and that traditional politics would eat us alive. But all of them underestimated the strength of freedom, the weariness of the average Argentine, and the will of a people who no longer want to be slaves of the state. Because when a people stop fearing power and start trusting themselves, there is no political or media apparatus that can stop them.

Today, Argentina is more alive than ever. Those who bet on collapse are left without a narrative. Those who dreamed of chaos woke up to a country that is beginning to find order. Those who said Milei would not last three months now pray for him to fail next year. But the process is already irreversible. The people chose freedom, and once freedom is tasted, there is no turning back. Those who lived off the state fear that the people will live without them. That is the real change taking place in Argentina.