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The Big Take
Milei’s Chainsaw Infuriates Voters He Needs to Salvage His Presidency
Spending cuts hit the middle class hard, leaving the libertarian at risk of becoming a lame duck after this weekend’s crucial midterm election.
Angel Santos is, by his own description, “bitter.”
Bitter that every time he walks into a Buenos Aires grocery store he feels poorer than the last; bitter that at age 67, he’s had to squeeze in odd jobs to supplement his pay as a doorman; bitter that this means working 14 hours a day, five days a week; bitter that his mother and uncle had their pensions capped while inflation raged; and bitter, as a result of all of these things, that he ever fell for President Javier Milei and his zany chainsaw-economics pitch.