Bolsonaristas will tell you it is no coincidence that all of these criminal investigations are closing in on the ruling family at the exact moment they lost the support of key sections of the political and economic establishment. They are actually right, for the wrong reasons.
It's true that in Brazil, judicial investigations rise up as your political capital falls, but in the case of the Bolsonaros, this is not "lawfare." It's the opposite. Their criminality has been obvious since the beginning, but the establishment gave them some room to try to rule
The pandemic exposed the Bolsonaros as something much worse than rabid, violently anti-democratic extremists (the "moderates" knew about this, and were OK with it) - it is now clear they are INCOMPETENT rabid, violently anti-democratic extremists, threatening business interests
So (and this is just speculation, I have no access to inside information regarding these investigations) - political and economic elites are withdrawing the shield. Allowing the Bolsonaros to be investigated for the (alleged) crimes that have been obvious for a very long time.
The "strategy" may be to encircle Bolsonaro, to slowly weaken him with a thousand legal cuts. But that doesn't mean they will remove him. They could also try to render him powerless, so the establishment right can rule. The 2016 impeachment was traumatic, even for the impeachers.
