Monday, December 15, 2025

Chile Completes the ‘Swinging Right’ Trifecta – HotAir

December 15, 2025
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There actually was one cheerful, hopeful piece of news coming out of this Godawful weekend of death and carnage, and it could very well spell the beginning of something terrific for a whole country.





Almost exactly a month ago, I told you how the national election in Chile was signaling that people were done with what the Leftists ruling their country for nearly a century had done to it. The Left experienced its worst electoral showing in 90 years, and for the first time ever in the country’s history, the conservative Right had won control of both houses of Chile’s bicameral National Congress.

The only question was whether the trend would continue through the ongoing rounds of the presidential primary. The two top vote-getters were a ruling Leftist and a Republican conservative, who advanced to a runoff. The three also-rans were throwing their support to the right-wing candidate.

…The top two leaders in the vote count, Leftist Jeannette Jara and the Republican challenger José Antonio Kast, will now head to a run-off to determine who will be the country’s president.

In an election marked by high voter turnout and a climate of profound disillusionment with Gabriel Boric ‘s administration , Chile took a decisive turn to the right . 70.2% of the electorate voted for opposition candidates , while the left failed to surpass 30% of the vote , confirming the crisis within the ruling coalition and the consolidation of conservative leadership.

Chileans went to the polls to determine who their new president would be yesterday, and by last night, it apparently wasn’t even a contest anymore.





It was a landslide.

Some things about the contestants and their constituencies might even seem familiar.

Trans flags in Jara’s bunker and Chilean flags in Kast’s bunker.

As someone in the comments on that post says – and we can confirm:

The left prefers any flag except that of their country.

For a conservative populist candidate like José Antonio Kast to win in such a blowout, the headlines were remarkably muted. Usually, you can count on hysterics from most of the press, but they’re either shellshocked from another loss or beaten into submission by the shift in Latin and South American politics as they watch their beloved Socialist/Marxist/Communist dominos fall, one after the other.

I mean, good grief. Instead of their hair on fire, CNN called it a ‘deepening regional shift to law and order politics‘ although they did use an al-Reuters’ snippy report for their story. 





Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to take the ‘country to its sharpest rightward shift since the end of dictatorship in 1990.

Kast secured 58.30% of the vote in a runoff with leftist candidate Jeannette Jara, who was at 41.70%, with more than 95% of the ballots counted.

“Democracy has spoken loud and clear,” Jara said as she conceded. “I have communicated with Jose Antonio Kast and wished him success for the good of Chile.”

Kast has been a consistent right-wing hardliner throughout his decades-long political career. He has proposed building border walls, deploying the military to high-crime areas, and deporting all migrants in the country illegally.

His victory marks the latest win for the resurgent right in Latin America. He joins Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, and Argentina’s Javier Milei. In October, the election of centrist Rodrigo Paz ended almost two decades of socialist rule in Bolivia.

The New York Times was far more circumspect, with a simple headline that Kast – a ‘conservative’ – had won the election.

José Antonio Kast, a conservative candidate, was elected Chile’s president on Sunday, a sharp rightward swing for a country where voters have grown deeply concerned about security and illegal immigration.

Mr. Kast, 59, a father of nine with ideological roots in conservative Roman Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, had campaigned on a tough-on-crime platform with echoes of President Trump’s political approach, promising to deport undocumented migrants and build a barrier along Chile’s extensive northern border.





Their description of the loser is kind of hilarious, though. Personally, I think it’s kind of difficult to be CENTER-left if one is actually a Communist. 

…With over 98 percent of the ballots counted, Mr. Kast had more than 58 percent of the vote, a resounding victory over Jeannette Jara, the candidate for the center-left and a member of the Communist Party of Chile, who had about 42 percent.

There’s nothing ‘centrist’ about Communism. It seems the good people of Chile weren’t falling for the labels either, since Kast took every region in the country.

First time that in a presidential election in #Chile, a candidate wins in ALL the Regions of the country. As they say, swept from “Arica to Punta Arenas”. In addition to being the most voted. Brutal!

‘Losing literally everywhere‘ – complete and utter rejection of the ruling Communists.

Chileans voted, and then they hit the streets to celebrate what will, hopefully, be a new start.





There is so much work to be done. Chile has an illegal immigrant problem and a violent crime epidemic.

People voted for Kast to fix those problems, as concerns over frightening real-life issues that have profoundly affected life during the past few years became the focus of the campaign, as opposed to social hot buttons like abortion access.

…He has instead denounced the 50 percent increase in homicide victims in 2024 compared with 2018, largely attributed to the penetration of international criminal networks into the country. That emphasis resonated with Chileans, as nearly two-thirds of those questioned now consider crime their main concern, double the global average, according to a recent Ipsos survey.

Their second major concern, polls show, is controlling immigration, another issue that Mr. Kast has promised to vigorously crack down on. More than 300,000 undocumented migrants are living in the country, according to estimates by Chile’s National Statistics Institute. Many have come from Venezuela.

“Security, drug trafficking, uncontrolled illegal immigration and criminal organizations are the great concern of the citizenry,” said Pablo Longueira, a veteran right-wing politician and former Chilean government minister. “These are the issues that defined this election.”

Though people who have committed crimes are only a tiny fraction of the migrants who have come to Chile fleeing economic collapse at home, the Chilean police say the influx has also included gang members, whose victims are frequently other migrants.





Kast is the picture postcard anti-Communist as a Roman Catholic, and he is quite the family man. Kast and his wife have nine children. 

As yet another ruined bastion of Socialism falls to the votes of its people, who want their country returned to secure prosperity, the few authoritarians left in the region, still clinging like terrified limpets to their power, are sweating bullets and bleating like terrified sheep.

Columbia’s Gustavo Petro rexweeted Javier Milei’s triumphant post with a whiny screed of his own.

THEY’RE COMING FOR US WAAH

Milei: THE LEFT RETREATS FREEDOM ADVANCES VLLC!

Petro: From the south and from the north come the winds of death.

Attention, Gran-Colombians, they are coming for us and we must resist with Bolívar’s sword held high and the step of victors.

They have blocked my tweet about the progressive defeat in Chile, I hope it recovers.





Resist with Bolivar’s sword?

Good luck, Gus. 

Maduro’s always waving a sword that he probably won’t have any use for pretty soon.

Gus can probably get that cheaply if he can’t find Bolivar’s.

Many happy congratulations to the people of Chile for decisively liberating themselves.


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