Writing in The New Statesman, Ahmari bemoans "Maga's foolish embrace" of Milei, whom too many are mistaking for a real populist—you know, the sort of strongman who embodies the volk, punishes certain businessmen, rewards certain labor unions, appeals to tradition and hierarchy, and generally bosses people around. Indeed, even Donald Trump—whom Ahmari slags for doing "precious little to implement a more solidaristic agenda"— congratulated Milei. With critics like Sohrab Ahmari, the sourpuss cofounder of the conservative social democrat* journal Compact, Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, is looking better and better even before doing a damn thing. Whatever your workout of choice, there are some key things to consider when shopping for the best gym shorts:

But Milei represents a break from Argentina's past, which for a century has been ruled by a series of left-wing and right-wing authoritarians who crush opposition and initiative in the name of the people they abuse.For all-rounders, a classic jersey short will serve you for football practice, jogs, HIIT sessions, stretching, weight lifting and rest days too. CERBERUS Strongman Shorts are hard-wearing with reinforced stitching and a heavy duty waistband and offer a layer of protection against bumps and scrapes which is also part of the sport that is Strongman. That's flattering, really. Milei's perfidious agenda includes such horribles as reducing tariffs in a country that is battling 140 percent annual inflation and has seen poverty climb from 5 percent a decade ago to over 40 percent. Milei—who does indeed quote libertarian economists such as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard—also wants to "dollarize" the economy as a way of hemming in an incompetent central bank and spendthrift government. This is bad, Ahmari says, because it "would leave the country without its own central bank and at the mercy of the US Federal Reserve System." Maybe, but such a complaint simply ignores the existing reality, which is beyond untenable.

Our Strongman Shorts are designed to provide you with warmth and help to prevent injuries, strains and inflammations in the groin, hips, upper legs and lumbar region. They also provide compression to your upper legs, hips, groin and glutes to improve your athletic performance as well as aid recovery. That's a start, in and of itself. There are reasons to be worried about Milei, not least of which is his predilection to downplaying past governmental violence, but to the extent that he confounds proponents of "real" populism, he might just be exactly what his country needs. We've enlisted the help of our expert panel of testers to put a bunch of gym shorts through their paces. Several hundreds of squats, lifting sessions, laps and lunges later and we've whittled down our edit of the very best men's gym shorts.