Commentary: First the US, then Brazil. Where next?

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The protesters who stormed Brazil’s capital looked north for inspiration and pro tips. The United States has a responsibility to help put out the fires that the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol attack started, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Eduardo Porter.

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Protests have spread across Santa Cruz in Bolivia after President Luis Arce ordered the jailing of governor and political rival Luis Camacho. In Argentina, Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner dropped out of the 2023 presidential election after being condemned for corruption. In Mexico, the opposition only barely managed to block President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s attempt to dismantle the authority overseeing Mexican elections.

In 2020, only 40 per cent of Brazilians agreed that democracy was preferable to other forms of government, down from 55 per cent in 2010. Given persistent inequality, dim economic prospects and a deep-seated mistrust in a political class that has proven itself corrupt and indifferent, these trends will be hard to reverse.

Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the former president’s son, was hosted by Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He has also chatted strategy with Stephen Bannon and lunched with Jason Miller.

 

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Hopefully not Malaysia

Woke media start to blame it on a small bunch of 'troublemakers'. When the event snowball and become bigger and bigger they start to change narrative. Woke believe they've a right to rule the World and simply ignore the rights of everyone else.

Think maybe the working class people are just sick and tired of going to work everyday and not getting anything from it. Then we look at these career POLITICIANS living it up not a fuckin worry in the world. We want our country back and so does Brazil

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