The narrative of Chile's political pendulum swing presents a compelling case study in the fragility of economic consensus and the dangers of ideological overreach. At its strongest, the analysis highlights the resilience of Chile's free-market institutions, which survived both left-wing attempts to dismantle them and right-wing efforts to tie them to authoritarianism. The article effectively steelmans the argument that Chile's prosperity is deeply tied to its market-oriented policies, while ackn...