Posted on 10/29/2018 9:54:09 AM PDT by pgkdan
They did it. Brazil went and pulled the trigger: its voters elected conservative Jair Messias Bolsonaro, colloquially known as Tropical Trump for his open admiration of President Trump and his comparable agenda.
The margin was huge: 55-44 over his socialist rival.
The press, of course, is aghast. These journalists are all using headlines with terms like "far-right" and "fascist" to describe him, something they never did when real fascists and far leftists, such as Hugo Chávez, got elected. Yes, Bolsonaro talks out of turn – you can see a collection of politically correct and sometimes just bad things he's said, all of which has driven the left to clutch its pearls, with all the craziest stuff said two decades ago. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Deep State and the rabid left are planning protests and riots. They aren't going to take this any better than U.S. Democrats did. One of them already stabbed the man and nearly killed him, for starters, and they aren't going to get better. On the lower level of the attack front, people have been run out of restaurants. Sound like any place you know?
There's a symmetry in this, a reason it had to happen, and that's worth looking at for perspective on how it can be used here.
What makes Brazil similar to the U.S.? Well it's a giant country, and it's somewhat separated from its neighbors by both its language and its vast and impenetrable Amazon jungle. It's also got a big racial mix. It's definitely got exceptionalism, because it is different. Big. Racially diverse. Separate. Most Latin American states can't say that. But Brazil can, and that gives it some things in common with the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Haddad's Parte Trabalhista or Labor Party is a communist party, not a socialist party.
They also both have massive, massive amounts of natural resources and neither can fully exploit them. The US because the enviros have gotten all sorts of restrictions put in place, Brazil because of corruption and enviro regulation stuff coupled with difficulty of the geography. There is no reason for Brazil to be poor if not for the massive corruption between government officials and companies like Petrobras. But it is poor and crime ridden. To solve the poverty / crime problem, fist attack the corruption problem hard.
Trump needs to break bread with this guy.
Good article.
He’s flipped on his promise to pull put of three Paris Accords. There’s only one Trump.
Because these journalists know that they won't find themselves on the wrong end of a gun in a dark alley for criticizing a conservative President.
Now with Hugo...
Sounds like Brazil made a major step last night in getting there by electing Bolsonero. It should be very interesting seeing Bolsonero work with Trump in the years ahead.
He was talking about Bolsinaro's victory and mentioned the other conservative victories in the last year or so. Paraguay, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, and now Brazil have all elected conservative leaders. In Peru they had to have a run off between two nationalist conservatives. The left didn't even make it to the run off. Big things happening in South America!
It's encouraging to see the conservative trend in South America. What an economic powerhouse that region of the world can potentially be.
While the Left here in the U.S. is obsessed with taking down Trump (and the USA), Trump is quietly helping to change the world.
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