Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been raising the alarm for months, arguing that the Senate should pass a resolution that would take a stand for democracy and “make it absolutely clear that will not support any government that comes to power in Brazil through undemocratic means.” They know that response of Bolsonaro and his allies to an election defeat could be even more dangerous and destructive than the deadly January 6, 2021, insurrection that Trump initiated. Notably, Trump has given his “complete and total endorsement” to the Brazilian president who the former US president celebrates as the “ Tropical Trump.”īolsonaro’s record of attacking democratic institutions, and his incendiary language during the current campaign, has members of Congress who actually care about democracy justifiably concerned. So, too, is the rallying behind Bolsonaro by international right-wing forces that have shown disdain for democracy. That’s an ominous signal for a country that has experienced military coups in the past. It’s an army that doesn’t accept corruption, doesn’t accept fraud.” “Only God will remove me ,” said Bolsonaro, who launched his reelection bid with an announcement that, “The army is on our side.

But Bolsonaro is claiming that if he doesn’t win by a landslide, it will be because “ something abnormal” happened with the voting process-echoing Trump’s false narrative from before he lost the 2020 election in the United States.

Polls from Brazil show that President Jair Bolsonaro, the Donald Trump–like authoritarian who has run the country disastrously since his election in 2018, is trailing far behind his leftist challenger, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the run-up to the first round of voting on Sunday.

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