The similarities between Bolsonaro and Trump in their attitudes to the election defeat made it foreseeable that something like this would happen
That it has come to this is no surprise. The polarization in Brazil even before the elections, which held their second round on October 30, was enormous. A few days before they went to the polls, the police investigated death threats against Lula. It was just an example of how far the ghosts were shot and a taste of what was to come.
Bolsonaro did not help calm things down. After learning the final results, the far-right leader refused to admit defeat and even in early November called on his followers to “not give up”, shouting “God is in command!” Inflamed by the proclamations, his supporters blocked roads causing the country to collapse. In this case, the former president stepped in to ask for peace despite the economic damage caused by the blockade.
But that was not a lasting cry for calm. In mid-November, it was the Brazilian military itself that fueled suspicions of electoral fraud by pointing to the “inconsistency of the electronic ballot boxes”. With such an incubator, fueled by silence one day, and speeches by Bolsonaro himself on another, on December 13, at the graduation ceremony that recognized Lula as president-elect, there were acts of vandalism and tension rose several degrees .
That was very well received at the end of December, when everything was preparing for the inauguration of the new president. Brazil held its breath at a possible attack that was not unreasonable to fear: a few days before, a far-right sympathizer had been arrested for attempting to detonate a bomb near the federal capital.
With this backdrop, and the many analogies between Bolsonaro’s actions and those of former US President Donald Trump, it is now little surprise that a copy of what happened in the Capitol happened in Brasilia almost exactly two years ago, because it did. on the 6th. January 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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