| The President, a libertarian economist given to outrageous provocations, wants to remake the nation. Can it survive his shock-therapy approach?  Photograph by Tommaso Protti for The New Yorker Supporters of Javier Milei, the self-described “anarcho-capitalist” President of Argentina, call him the Madman or the Wig—a reference to his hairdo, an unkempt shag with disco sideburns. Detractors liken him to the pilot of an aircraft plunging toward the ground. Milei—who came to power, amid an anti-incumbent wave, in part by blaming economic trouble on corruption among politicians, journalists, trade unionists, and academics—believes in a drastic reduction in the scope of government. He once declared that “the state is the pedophile in the kindergarten, with the children chained up and slathered in Vaseline.” Jon Lee Anderson met with Milei, and, in this week’s issue, he details the striking parallels he found between the Argentinean President and America’s President-elect. | 
