Brazil’s Polarization Is Here to Stay Even As Politicians Have (Mostly) Dialed Down the Rhetoric
The political debate in Latin America's largest democracy looks less destructive than it used to be.
SÃO PAULO — Over recent days, political debates in Brazil briefly seemed to have returned to the heyday of polarization before the 2022 presidential elections. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's decision to compare, in off-the-cuff remarks during a trip to Africa, Israel's war against Hamas to the Holocaust set off heated debates between his supporters and those who criticized the president. Less than a week later, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, with a fiery speech to thousands of supporters in São Paulo, briefly led to people mutually accusing each other on X of lying about the exact...
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