Book Review: Will Bolsonarismo Outlast Bolsonaro?
By
Brian Winter
A new book by Richard Lapper sheds light on Brazil's culture of popular conservatism.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the education crisis In certain Brazilian circles, the rewriting of history has already begun: Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 election victory was an aberration, an accident, the product of a now-discredited corruption investigation that unfairly put the rightful winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in jail. Now free, Lula is leading Bolsonaro in polls for this October’s election by 10–20 points or more. As the thinking goes, the fever of the last four years will soon break, and Brazil will return to its normal left-of-center point...
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