After years of namby-pamby conservative presidential candidates, Chile's conservatives came up with a real one -- and this was the result:
Chileans elected their most right-wing president in a generation, with hard-line conservative José Antonio Kast winning easily after vowing to clamp down on crime and illegal immigration https://t.co/7yy78ow1Dp
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 15, 2025
He won every single region, including the lefty regions, such as the big cities.
🇨🇱 | José Antonio Kast ganó en TODAS las regiones de Chile. pic.twitter.com/mXQ3sQlswH
— Alerta Mundial (@AlertaMundoNews) December 14, 2025
It wasn't close:
Tonight in Chile, the ultraconservative José Antonio Kast, who declared that if General Pinochet were alive today “clearly he would vote for me”, has won the Presidential election in a LANDSLIDE against the communist candidate. Very nice Chile! pic.twitter.com/luIpufMIo0
— Dr. Ben Braddock (@GraduatedBen) December 14, 2025
MASSIVE 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) December 15, 2025
Large crowds out celebrating that the Socialists lost the election in Chile.
The right-wing candidate won.
I somehow doubt the media will show you this... 👇pic.twitter.com/WAEBIMzlHO
In the rugged, cowboy-like far south, out where the wild things are -- think 'Montana,' 'Alberta' and 'Alaska,' -- it was 100%:
In the south, they ALL went for Kast https://t.co/xiUcHpNp9W
— Monica Showalter (@mmshowalter1) December 15, 2025
It probably helped that Chile was run by a socialist government. People see a socialist government up close and know what it means for them -- less freedom, more disorder, thugs in charge, and know that there's more coming. With the memory of it in front of them, they go the other way. And when the leftist administration places a communist party member in front of them as their AOC-style chosen candidate, (which happened), they run.
Hence, the blowout results.
In Chile's case, the big issues were crime -- with cops and prosecutors not doing their jobs, and open borders, which invited every criminal from the third world in without authorization. Chile has always been a crime-free nation -- that is, until the migrants got let in.
Put those two issues together and the crime rate soared.
With most of the thugs getting in from Venezuela, it didn't take long for Venezuelan state death squads against dissidents to start turning up. That happened in Chile. The government response was feckless, and Chileans wanted no more of it.
Kast got into office by vowing to build a wall on Chile's northern border to keep illegals out.
According to the New York Times:
“Kast understood very early that these two issues were driving people crazy,” said Claudio Fuentes, a Chilean political scientist, “and he was able to focus on them.”
Mr. Kast visited Chile’s most crime-ridden areas and promised strict measures, including by announcing a countdown for migrants to self-deport or be deported.
As the Kast government prepares to take on organized crime, said Mr. Carter, the campaign spokesman, “there will be casualties.’’
He won, despite the press bid to paint him as a Nazi, based on his father, a Bavarian, being forced to serve in Hitler's army, same as Pope Benedict XVI had been. Bavarians are Catholics who reliably hated Hitler.
They also brought up that his brother Miguel served as "a minister" in the military government of Augusto Pinochet, sleazily suggesting that he had engaged in death-squad activity, which was very scant in Chile, as most of the casualties during that time of troubles were armed radical leftist guerrillas who shot at the army first.
Brother Miguel had nothing to do with any of that -- he was an economist, and not just any economist but a Chicago Boy, a disciple of Milton Friedman, one of the most brilliant of them, and served as Pinochet's central bank chief, solidifying the value of Chile's money after decades of socialist devaluation, making savings a non-losing proposition, killing hyperinflation, and setting the stage for Chile's economic miracle. He was only in office a brief time before he died of cancer at the age of 34, yet his contribution was absolutely stellar.
Here's the New York Times's sleazy, innuendo-filled take, which disgusted me to read:
After a Chilean reporter posted a document showing that his father was a member of the Nazi party, Mr. Kast rejected the claim, saying that he was just a conscripted soldier in the Nazi army and that both he and his father abhorred Nazism. His brother, Miguel Kast, was a minister during Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, which killed and disappeared thousands of people.
Mr. Kast has been active in politics since he was a law student at Chile’s Pontifical Catholic university in Santiago. He was a follower of Jaime Guzmán, a law scholar who was one of the main ideological architects of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Oh, and who was Jaime Guzman? Let's bring that one up, too: The architect of Chile's transition-to-democracy 1980 constitution, the one that has kept Chile from skidding into Chavismo and all the other freak shows of Latin America, and another giant of Chile's economic transformation. What happened to Jaime Guzman? He was assassinated by a crazed leftist guerrilla in 1991 at the age of 44, in an unprovoked broad-daylight attack. Leftist guerrillas don't do constitutions or rule of law, they don't like it.
There's no doubt Kast will embrace the Chicago Boy energy and put Chile on the path to prosperity (which Chile hasn't seen a lot of in the last 20 years) through the miracle of free market economics. It's in his blood, it's in his thinking. He seriously believes in free markets and the prosperity that follows from them. He's not a namby-pamby.
It's also all but certain he will get along great with President Javier Milei of Argentina (whose success in transforming that country into an economic dynamo probably influenced a few votes, too) -- look at how they romp and frolic already -- the third guy is Eduardo Bolsonaro, the imprisoned former president of Brazil who is looking to win office, too:
Nuevo presidente electo de Chile: Kast.
— El Trumpista (@ElTrumpista) December 14, 2025
Arrasa con más del 60% de los votos, y gana en todas las regiones.
pic.twitter.com/QXvzcvkU91
Those guys love each other, and together, will form a powerhouse alliance of free market prosperity they can call the Jose San Martin alliance -- because the historic liberator hero of both these countries loved himself some freedom and rule of law.
And they're getting together tomorrow, to solidify the Southern Cone as a coming free market miracle:
Milei will welcome Chile's conservative president-elect tomorrow at the presidential residence in Argentina! https://t.co/ZoXC4GOTsl
— Daniel Di Martino 🇺🇸🇻🇪 (@DanielDiMartino) December 15, 2025
I bet they invite Paraguay's and Bolivia's leaders to the conservative/libertarian club, too, as well as Peru and Ecuador if they are interested. Maybe all of them -- particularly if Colombia changes course, which I think it will next year, Brazil does, too, and Venezuela ousts its dirty dictator. I can't help but feel there will be a huge chain reaction that will accelerate with President Trump's pressure campaign on Venezuela and the presence of free market flowers coming up big down south.
Leftists crushed in blowout conservative presidential victory in Chile - American Thinker
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