Argentina, no stranger to turmoil and misfortune, may have more in store for the next four years.

When all the votes were counted on November 19, the runoff election between far-right libertarian Javier Milei and centrist Sergio Massa was not even close: Milei trounced the incumbent Peronist government’s candidate by over 12 percent. The dim hopes of a last-minute upset only served to make the defeat that more crushing.

Milei, the president-elect, has been featured in several profiles fixating on his more outlandish qualities: the five cloned mastiffs, named after libertarians like Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard, who supposedly provide Milei counsel; his background as a soccer goalkeeper and the front man for a Rolling Stones cover band; and his call to privatize and bring to market literally everything of social value (including human organs and children). In retrospect, those bizarre qualities may have lulled some into a sense of disbelief, even denial.