The way the American mainstream media handled Milei was one of the key topics that completely tore the mask off them for me (the others big ones being Bitcoin and the pandemic).  I lived in Argentina for 8 years and my wife spent all of her life there until our son was born and we moved to the US.  I first came across him in my Apple News feed, early in his campaign, where he was described as "trump-like, fascist, far-right extremist, crazy, unstable, talking to his dead dogs, wanting to legalize the sale of human organs and babies, etc."  I asked my wife if she knew anything about him.  She didn't, and we started watching Argentinean coverage of him, and a lot of his appearances on various podcasts, etc.  We both came to like him quickly--he was passionate, articulate, smart, very consistent, very grounded in Austrian economics, and he never spoke down to his audience.  We followed his entire campaign and were thrilled when he won.  The craziest thing is, after the election,  my wife's friends expressed their condolences to her about Milei's victory.  From their CNN-informed world-view, their base assumption was that my wife would be upset.