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La Libertad Avanza and US Democratic Party
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, ID, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Milei | US Democratic Party | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +10 | −03 | 13 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +06 | −05 | 11 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +04 | −02 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | 00 | +04 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +03 | −06 | 9 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +03 | −06 | 9 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
Milei · EC +10
The most market-oriented sitting government in the dataset.
- Documented act or statuteThe December 2023 emergency decree repealed or amended over three hundred regulations at once.
- Documented act or statuteMinistries were reduced from eighteen to nine and public employment cut sharply.
US Democratic Party · EC −03
Regulated capitalism with subsidised private insurance markets. Well right of any European social democratic party.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2010 Affordable Care Act expanded coverage through subsidised private insurance rather than public provision.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2022 Inflation Reduction Act operates through tax credits to private firms rather than public ownership.
Milei · CU +06
Coded +6: opposition to abortion, gender policy and what the president calls cultural Marxism, alongside libertarian economics.
- Documented act or statuteMinistries of women, gender and diversity were abolished in 2023.
US Democratic Party · CU −05
Coded −5: the party has moved substantially toward the liberal pole on family and identity questions since 2004.
- Programme textPlatform support for same-sex marriage moved from opposition to endorsement between 2004 and 2012.
- Comparative datasetCHES-equivalent placements put the party well toward the GAL pole relative to European mainstream parties.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
La Libertad Avanza
2021– · Argentina
Radical reduction of the state, dollarisation, and a declared war on the political caste.
US Democratic Party
1828– · United States
Regulated capitalism, expanded health coverage, civil rights, climate action, and defence of existing institutional procedure.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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