In a live stream on Instagram on the 5th, shortly after the conservative CPAC conference in the United States, federal congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) noted: "When you come abroad and expose things, you realize that you are not alone". And he added: "It's all pretty much the same problem."
At his side, fellow congressman and former Secretary of Culture Mário Frias (PL-SP) replied: "It feels like I'm watching a movie, only they are a little further ahead". And the two go ahead and start listing: "It's a sex change business, trans agenda, 2030 agenda, child sexualization, environmental agenda, men competing with women in women's competition".
There are many similarities between US and Brazilian policies since the rise to power of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro: two leaders considered right-wing populists who contested defeat at the polls without consistent arguments, who had supporters engaged in violent acts to try to reverse the electoral result and who adopted behaviors seen as attacks on democracy. And both went to Florida after losing, without participating in the transfer of office to their successors — Joe Biden and Lula, respectively.
All this happened in the USA two years before Brazil. And the path that the Trumpist right wing took during this period to try to bring the republican candidate back to the government may give indications of what the Bolsonarist base should do outside the sphere of power, according to experts.
Translated by Cassy Dias