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This is a story that starts around 2018, when Jair Bolsonaro – then a lacklustre congressman known for supporting the military dictatorship and publicly praising notorious torturers – launched his presidential candidacy.
theconversation.com/brazil-insurre…
This is a story that starts around 2018, when Jair Bolsonaro – then a lacklustre congressman known for supporting the military dictatorship and publicly praising notorious torturers – launched his presidential candidacy.
theconversation.com/brazil-insurre…
Like so many far-right authoritarians before him, in the name of God, the fatherland and traditional family values, the retired army captain Bolsonarao echoed Trump's banal slogan by vowing to “drain the swamp” of politics and usher in a new era for Brazil.
In Bolsonaro's vision, state policies would no longer be necessary. Political authority would naturally stem from business people, religious leaders, armed militiamen and – above all – the president’s messianic figure.
