Argentina’s tear-it-all-down frontrunner connects with angry young men
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The blast of a shofar echoed across the arena. A giant screen showed atomic bombs destroying cities. Then the image of a lion in flames appeared, and thousands of young men screamed.
The star of the show had arrived: Javier Milei, the man leading the race to become Argentina’s next president.
“I am the king — the lion king,” the floppy-haired economist sang in his raspy voice. Supporters joined him in belting out his rewrite of the headbanging Argentine song “Panic Show.”
“Don’t run away from me; I am the king of a lost world. I am the king and I’ll devour you. The entire caste is my appetite.”
Most of the thousands who packed the Movistar Arena for Milei’s campaign-closing rally on Wednesday were men, many of them young and all of them seemingly angry.
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