On Thursday, at 18:00 ET, the conversation between host Tucker Carlson and the Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei was published on X (formerly Twitter).
The interview, about 32 minutes long, left great moments, with Milei criticizing Pope Francis, endorsing former President Donald Trump and reflecting on socialism when Carlson asked him about the architecture of the city of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital.
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Between the fourteen and fifteen minute timestamp of the conversation, Carlson asked Milei why the architecture of Buenos Aires had a marked difference between the old and the more modern buildings, pointing out that the former are really beautiful and the latter more tasteless and unsightly.
Milei explained that this is because the old buildings, which generate "fascination", were designed and built at the time of "liberal" Argentina when the South American country was admired in the world, while modern buildings were created in the era of "socialist Argentina" and statist politicians.
"You describe the buildings on the left as square, plain and ugly. Why does the left like concrete so much? Your old buildings are made of stone and plaster, but the newer socialist buildings are all made of concrete. What is that?" Carlson asked Milei.
"It has to do with the values of the left. The values underlying the ideas of the left are envy, hatred, resentment, unequal treatment before the law and violence," Milei responded.
"Then all that socialist altruism ends up generating a contamination of the incentives that generate poverty," continued Milei, who then left a solemn phrase against socialism. "This is interesting: socialism is always and everywhere a violent, murderous and impoverishing phenomenon. That is the characteristic of socialism."
Following Milei's reflection, Carlson told the libertarian outsider, the favorite to win Argentina's presidential election next month, that the United States is living its own Argentine-style "socialist" process with a large increase in debt, a large fiscal deficit and rampant inflation. Therefore, the host asked the leader of the political space La Libertad Avanza to give advice to Americans.
"Never embrace the ideas of socialism, never be seduced by the siren song of social justice and not get caught up in that nefarious phrase that says 'Where a need is born, a right is born,'" said Milei, who also asked Americans to be ready to give the cultural battle.
