This work studies the concepts addressed by President Alberto Fernández when referring to “hate speech” and the narratives of exhaustion forged by a sector of political opposition since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this, a brief analysis of the discourse used by the Argentine president is presented and the appeal to state rhetoric (as a support to the health emergency), the "agonist" perspective of politics (in terms of Chantal Mouffe), the "social democracy" in a Peronist key (taking up the echoes of Juan Domingo Perón, RaúlAlfonsín and Néstor Kirchner) and the revaluation of democratic consensus and reflection on coexistence. Likewise, the text also focuses on the neoliberal discourse, the media-hegemonic treatment in the context of global crisis and, specifically, the notions of "freedom" (of expression, economic or property) wielded by the "anti-official" sectors in public spaces and virtual environments.