One way would be to pretend that the cannon isn’t a cannon. Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman, is by any reasonable definition an authoritarian, a fascist and a potential dictator. His entire political career is built on violent rhetoric aimed at Brazil’s most marginalized peoples. These are all objectively fascist, authoritarian, autocratic things to say, and Bolsonaro’s long history of espousing such sentiment suggests they are a good bet to become the fascist, authoritarian, autocratic things he will do. (As with Donald Trump, Bolsonaro’s “populist” gestures served mainly to distract from the support he was consolidating among the reactionary fancy classes.)

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2018 21:11 UTC