Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ends his Donald Trump act - MSNBC

Despite predictions to the contrary, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appears not to beryllium the predetermination denier that erstwhile President Donald Trump is, making ideology successful Brazil, for now, much resilient than ideology successful the United States.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro appears not to beryllium the predetermination denier that erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump is.

After the right-wing Bolsonaro lost the statesmanlike predetermination to the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva connected Sunday by astir 2 cardinal votes retired of 119 cardinal cast, archetypal attraction turned to whether the “Trump of the Tropics,” arsenic he’s been called, would concede the contention to a erstwhile president who'd been convicted of corruption. The soundlessness lasted done Tuesday, but connected Wednesday Bolsonaro agreed to a modulation of power (without a ceremonial concession speech), and connected Thursday he called for the extremity of his supporters’ roadworthy blockades that had numbered successful the hundreds.

What could person been the commencement of a Brazilian “Stop the Steal” run this week had fizzled retired by week’s end, and it is doubtful that it would ever person grown arsenic large arsenic the run to support Trump successful the White House. However, Bolsonaro's agreeing to a peaceful transportation of powerfulness hasn’t stopped noted American “Stop the Steal” predetermination deniers from calling for a subject coup successful Brazil to support Bolsonaro.

On Sunday, erstwhile it was wide that Bolsonaro would not drawback up to Lula’s lead, far-right predetermination denier Ali Alexander was urging the “brothers of Brazil” to “take to the streets” with a “military standby,” noting on Truth Social, with nary grounds astatine all, that “Joe Biden’s squad is presently STEALING the Brazilian predetermination for socialist Lula. Literally a COUP.” Alexander was demanding an audit of the vote, a baseless trope being regurgitated by the likes of right-wingers Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson.

“The borderline of triumph is little than 2 percent,” Carlson said Tuesday connected his show. “There are a batch of questions astir this election, whether each the ballots were counted, for example. And Bolsonaro has not conceded. But questioning the predetermination results successful Brazil is nary longer allowed determination oregon adjacent here.”

Like an adjacent much twisted connection of manifest destiny, the United States has had a shameful past of bulldozing done the governmental wishes of its confederate neighbors portion each the clip boasting that it believes successful ideology and that ideology present is amended than ideology anyplace else. Meddling successful Latin America’s governmental affairs and sometimes propping up dictators portion purporting to beryllium a person of ideology has ever been an evident American hypocrisy. But determination is simply a peculiar irony present successful watching American conservatives, who utilized to boast that America’s main export is democracy, rally to export predetermination denialism. This right-wing effort to export this anti-democratic thought that lone right-wingers’ wins are morganatic is worrisome. But determination are 2 large reasons wherefore it’s apt to fail.

First, dissimilar Trump, Bolsonaro is isolated. Some of his astir salient allies and supporters person already conceded the predetermination to Lula, squashing the anticipation of countless lawsuits and mendacious claims that emanated from Trump World aft the 2020 predetermination and led to an attempted coup astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.

“The cardinal quality is that almighty right-wing politicians, Bolsonaro’s allies, each jumped retired arsenic soon arsenic the results were announced and accepted the results, congratulated Lula, the victor, and said publically that they were consenting and looking guardant to moving with the Lula administration,” Harvard prof of Latin American studies Steven Levitsky told NBC's "Meet the Press Now" Thursday.

Understanding however ideology works, those precise aforesaid Bolsonaristas can beryllium the thorn to Lula’s mandate, fixed that they volition person governmental powerfulness successful the country. Many of these aforesaid politicians and their supporters tried to suppress the ballot from the Lula camp, but erstwhile the predetermination was over, it was over, and they begrudgingly realized determination would beryllium a caller president, a realization that Bolsonaro mightiness person not accepted, according to Lavitsky, if his main allies hadn’t accepted it.

“I deliberation Bolsonaro would person loved to contention the election. Bolsonaro would person loved to overturn the election, but he’s unsocial and he’s going to person to judge his defeat,” Levitsky added.

Such an admittance by Bolsonaro is really bully for the profoundly polarized country.

Brazil’s electoral process, adjacent with the mendacious Bolsonaro claims of fraud, has held on.

There’s a 2nd crushed wherefore Brazil’s young ideology mightiness past 1 of its biggest challenges since it was formed successful 1985 successful the aftermath of a decades-long subject dictatorship. Brazil employs an electronic voting system that leads to quicker results and resolutions. In an effort to combat much cumbersome and problematic processes from the 1990s, Brazil’s electoral process, adjacent with the mendacious Bolsonaro claims of fraud, has held on. In opposition to what the United States volition apt witnesser during adjacent week’s midterms and what occurred during Trump’s 2020 lies, Brazil appears to beryllium up successful the ideology game.

“I deliberation these elections truly showed that Brazilian institutions and our voting systems tin withstand pressure, tin withstand criticism," the manager of counter-disinformation strategies astatine Equis Research, Roberta Braga, who is Brazilian, told maine connected Latino Rebels Radio this week. "The elections were conducted successful a escaped and just mode with immoderate concerning efforts to suppress voters, isolated incidents connected the time of, but not wide interruptions astatine scale."

Even with the expected misinformation wave that present seems to beryllium a portion of each large predetermination astir the world, Brazil passed a large ideology trial this week. Bolsonaro is decidedly playing a balancing enactment by acknowledging the vexation and distrust his halfway supporters feel, but truthful far, adjacent with the U.S. close helping pushing for a Jan. 6-type infinitesimal successful Brazil, governmental world appears to beryllium mounting in.

Democracies tin lone past if each participants, some the winners and the losers, bash what they tin to support it. Bolsonaro didn’t afloat clasp ideology this week aft losing his election, but helium did capable to support it applicable successful Brazil. The aforesaid cannot beryllium said successful the U.S., arsenic “more than half” of Republican midterm candidates are supporting immoderate predetermination denial position, according to a caller CBS News analysis.

That is unsafe for ideology successful the U.S., and possibly we Americans request to crook to Brazil for existent lessons connected however to support ideology alive.