Everybody knows the old adage: When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on your side, pound the table.
The denizens of K-land can hardly be faulted for pounding the crowds, they are good at that so why not? (The flip side is apparent though - if a president that popular (or her anointee, to be precise) managed to lose an election, and to boot to such a loser and loner, maybe that's saying something.)
IRL though, everybody understands the difference between the Diario Registrado crowd (btw bajo never got a response from you regarding that outright forgery and gross misrepresentation of the NYT) and the one that cares for policy and that at the very least understands that everything, from computer design to macroeconomics, is a trade-off.
Democracy is a double-edged sword. On the one hand it means that you don't have an elite superminority ruling a disenfrachised superminority - see monarchy and feudalism. On the other hand, it means that people need not be informed to have a say over issues. This is particularly a problem in a country without a robust civic tradition, where a large part of the electorate is vulnerable - yes, the right word is vulnerable - to populists who take advantage of their ignorance and recruit them to their cause.
There is a big difference between railing against a nobility/monarchy that governs for no good reason, and recognizing that populist movements tend to succeed with people who are ignorant of the issues and get preyed on. For years the K movement has framed themselves as on the side of democracy vs. corporations, where it is becoming increasingly clear that they have no problem at all with business, so long as it's business that aids and abbetts their thievery.
The long term solution is to educate a new generation of Argentines about the tradeoffs of economics, about the dangers of demagoguery, about grownup life. About government answerable to the people as represented by impartial institutions, not to thuggish movements with massive manpower deliberately misconstrued as 'the people' at large. Yes, while more responsible people are working or doing whatever their life involves.
K people are dead-set against any impartial institutions or rules, because then they lose. The only way to be on top of things is to bend the rules, and apply even these bent rules inconsistently. Witness bajo: until Macri took office, all along it was about the 200 criminal investigations involving him. When his bluff was called on that, it was that he was procesado in a couple of them. Remember that he wasn't even going to be able to take office?
When Macri's name emerges in the Panama Papers - which is bad optics but: 1. absent any evidence of wrongdoing is simply guilt by association, and 2. which Macri has explained, on the record, in a way that leaves no wiggle-room and which would be fairly easy to prove if said explanation was indeed false - we go batshit crazy with scandalous adjectives and outright forgeries.
And after all that - when it's the other side, with rather extensive indications of wrongdoing, it's all about the abuse of the justice system.
And all without an ounce of shame. Pound the table, indeed.
