𝖄𝕺𝖀𝕬𝕽𝕰𝕬𝕲𝕳𝕺𝕾𝕿

  After the first round in which Flavio Bolsonaro won in Brazil, no one could know what would come next. The rest of the candidates aligned more with Bolsonaro than with Lula. Logic said Lula had everything against him. A candidate in those conditions does not recover so easily. But wait. Lula was still the president of Brazil and had the entire state apparatus on his side. He made concessions on labor issues because he was in office. He advanced payments of social programs because he was in office. He extended voting hours by two hours because he was in office. Beyond the heroic narrative of the union leader who defeated the far right, the real story is different. The president of the world’s tenth-largest economy used the full power of the state to crush a young junior, spoiled and rude, with no political experience. Yes, the Bolsonaro name carries weight on the Brazilian right. But come on. Does it weigh more than that of a man who has been in power for two decades? Flavio shoul...