After decades of out of control socialism resulting in hyperinflation and skyrocketing poverty rates, Argentina has shocked the world and elected libertarian Javier Milei as the country’s next president. Milei, an economist by trade and a self described anarcho-capitalist plans to slash public spending and abolish the country’s central bank among other major reforms.

Argentina’s shock political upset is the latest in a string of results across the Western world in which citizens are rejecting oppressive, far-left socialism in favour of conservative alternatives. With Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party looking set to face an historic defeat at the ballot box, is Canada next?

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    Harrison Faulkner is the host of Ratio'd and co-host of Fake News Friday. He is also a journalist and producer for True North based in Toronto. Twitter: @Harry__Faulkner

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