The Spanish anti -immense fanaticism rises to Milei’s wave in search of young adherents | Spain
« The Youtubers of Andorra They do what we would do millions if we could. Why not defend from the claws of politicians what you have won honestly? ”
The first, because nothing less than Javier Milei, a machine to attract cameras, went to Madrid on Friday to receive a club award. The second, because the ideas defended by the association have traditionally occupied a marginal position for its radicalism, so the contrast with attracted attention is now drastic. These ideas would be summarized as follows: the State is a « parasite », « taxes are a robbery », « social justice » is « envy culture », « inequality » is « symptom » of « progress », « redistribution » is « seizure. » That is, the same repertoire of Milei, which is precisely in full task of getting those ideas from the corner.
The phenomenon is back and forth. On the one hand, a horror of Spanish groups and channels of digital agitationsome with ultraliberal trajectory and others just uploaded to the car, are taking advantage of Milei’s pull to put these ideas speaker. At the same time, the Argentine leader is miming this movement. The result is that times of unprecedented show of anti-state fanaticism in Spain, a “boom” in which Enrique Díez, professor of education at the University of León and author of Anti -fascist pedagogy (Octaedro, 2025), sees an extension to the economic terrain of the « large -scale dissemination strategy of reactionary ideas » that already occurs in other issues such as immigration, taking advantage, « he says, » that « the place where young people forge their vision of the world It is moving from formal education to social networks”
To political scientist José Natanson, director of the edition for the Southern Cone of Le Monde DiplomatiqueHistory sounds. In his country, Argentina, Milei has not only razed among the first voters –In 2023 it reached 70% among children under 24 yearsaccording to an Atlas survey – but it adds more and more young to the « libertarian activism. » How did you do it? Natanson cites three reasons: an « anti -dug » populism that turns on like gunpowder, a speech that connects with those who trust their hopes to the « new digital economy », whether as distributors or small investors, and an « aesthetic of transgression. » Although the circumstances in Argentina and Spain are different – especially, for inflation -, Natanson sees in Milei a product « buyable » by young people also outside their country, which explains that groups that seek public in that market are outs me out of the market as a claim.
The Spanish case shows that Milei is delighted to lend to that role. And one of the beneficiaries is the Friday club. In a video call at the gates of Milei’s visit, its president, Ana Gómez, was delighted with the « visibility bum » that the Argentine leader had given them. « It is not that the prize retwee, also the comments!, Celebrated the president of an association that is not precisely an organizational titan. Defined by Gómez as a » decentralized « network of » anarcocapitalistas, mining (supporters of the minimum state) and liberals « , the best known activity of the club is its full -time provocation in X, where Prodiga insults to politicians and journalists.
As « Messi or Cristiano »
Together with Gómez, on Friday he entertained Milei in Madrid Jesús Huerta de Soto. Reference in Spain of anarcocapitalism, this economist directs the master’s degree from the Austrian school of the Rey Juan Carlos University and has, according to Gómez, strong pull among young people, the great hope of his movement. The previous weekend, Gomez adds with a smile, there were already « many young people » at the Vistalegre Palace. « And very prepared! » What was held there on June 7 and 8 was the Madrid Economic Forum, an event sponsored by a platform crypto that brought together thousands of people, Most men in the twenty and thirtyand whose balance was a commendation of capitalism without rules between Screams against Pedro Sánchez and live to Spain.
Behind the event there are two companies. One is Abast, who advises societies with « with interests in Andorra », A shelter of rich who wants to lower their fiscal bill. The other is Racks, a group of varied activity – see t -shirts with the motto Fuck Taxesgives courses on Bitcoin, manages spaces of co-working– whose most visible face Victor Domínguez, better known as Wall Street Wolverine, a popular content diffuser among the young public. In addition to providing them with a continuous flow of anti -immigration messages, Dominguez explains to his followers that “the best form of redistribution of wealth is that the rich spend money on Gilipolleces” or that the public pension system is a “pyramid scam”. If until last Sunday Dominguez – with which the country tried to contact, without success – already presumed more than 800,000 followers both in X and YouTube, since then he adds to his list of achievements that Milei closed his forum with one of his informed speeches. As his coordinator, Helena de Torres, said before the event, It was like having « Messi or Cristiano ».
The payroll of participants in the Forum is a sample of praisers of Milei, such as the Madrid former president Esperanza Aguirre, the economist Daniel Lacalle, the former citizen deputy Marcos de Quinto or Iker Jiméneztelevision star in four that has evolved as an expert in paranormal phenomena to agglutinator of extremist voices. To them is added to Pedro Buerbaum, who became famous selling gofres in the form of a penis and now has a YouTube channel with more than 1.34 million followers that spread a revolt of messages in which the support of Milei, the contempt for the Treasury – a “medium mafiosete parasite”, according to Buerbaum – and all kinds of conspiracy theories. It is not such a strange mix. Rafael Palacios, aka Rafapalwhose Conspiranoic channel in Telegram has more than 126,000 followers, is also a Milei enthusiast, which seems like a rank of taboos.
Expanding the focus, Rare is the extreme right agitator who has not turned Milei a usual of its contents, from Herqles to Cake Minuesa, through SR Liberal and of course Alvise Pérez, who competes with Vox in reverence to the Argentine leader. « All kinds of groups and Influencers Ultras have seen in Milei the opportunity to expand their offensive with a speech against the State, taxes and common social spaces, ”said the aforementioned pedagogue Enrique Díez, which investigates the diffusion networks of extremist content and has observed how at the same time as the Argentine polemicist Agustín Lajevery close to Milei, he gets more and more predicament in Madrid, a Spanish similar figure as Javier Negre He wins presence in Argentina under his president, who has photographed with him. « If Milei is involved in these alliances, it is because he understands that Spain is key in this battle, » he adds.
The « theft » of taxes
Milei has also given a push to the Juan de Mariana Institute, a laboratory of Madrid ideas that gives courses on cryptocurrencies – as Bitcoin and Libertad– And that is led by Manuel Llamas, former high position of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, banner of the PP sector most related to the Argentine leader. A year ago, Milei received an award from this entity in Madrid. It was a boost for flames, which pursues relevance in the economic debate with positions such as « the State is the greatest expression of violence » and that taxes are « a damn robbery. » Flames, in writing statements, affirms that the « influential » figure of Milei, and specifically that he received the prize, has helped to « accelerate » the « growth » of his entity, and see logical that, « looking for an alternative » to their difficult situation, young people feel « inspired » by the leader of freedom advances.
Llamas and Gabriel Calzada, Enthusiast of Milei, president of the University of Las Hesperides, a digital training center that organizes together with the Juan de Mariana Institute some summer courses were commissioned. The center that chairs Calzada has as a dean the economist Juan Ramón Rallo, who to his facet as an ultraliberal disseminator now adds a privileged political access. It was Rallo, as he has told himself, who suggested to Milei to close the Madrid Economic Forum, where in turn the University of Las Hesperides was represented. The Mileists They are weaving a network.
Cultivation broth
The political consultant Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí detects a breeding ground so that young people feel attracted by the ultraliberal message. « Since politics does not respond to many of its problems, this generation tends to underestimate the value of the common good, which feeds libertarian positions, » he says about children under 30, Centennialsthe author of the essay Polarization, Society and Algorithms (21st century, 2025), which sees this more acute inclination in men, among which the « fast money » gurus with a speech that combines the exaltation of « crypto speculations » with the denunciation of the « voracity » of the treasury.
Various SCI surveys of the last year show that the perception of fault of the social elevator is greater among the youngest groups, an opinion that specialists see symptomatic of lack of confidence in the state as a guarantor of opportunities and permeability to anti -imposed speeches. This is an extended feeling between them and them. This is not always the case. In the vision on the Treasury there is a gender gap.
The two age groups that most abound the idea that the main reason why taxes are hidden is that the taxes are excessive are 18-24 and 25-34. But it is not a homogeneous perception. Among men, they are 27.5% and 26.8%, respectively; Among women, 14.7% and 18.5%. In addition, young people up to 35 are more skeptical than young women about the usefulness of taxes and more tolerant to IRPF fraud. Always, anti -imposed positions are mediated by ideology: they are more marked The more to the right is the respondent.
TO Javier Carbonellresearcher at the University of Edinburgh specialized in inequality and extreme rightdoes not produce the slightest strangeness that traditionally marginal economic ideas in Spain are « gaining land », especially among twenty -year -old men. « In general, individualistic discourse Milei type He is booming. But, in addition, among the young boys a message progresses that promises a return to male primacy emphasizing the possibilities of investment – there are strong cryptocurrencies – in the face of the value of work, presented as a less promising path towards success, ”explains Carbonell, which highlights how this Marida narrative perfectly with the lack of fiscal commitment and skepticism about everything collective.
