Brazil shows rise of the far right calls for a considered response
Bolsonaro is a reminder of the complexity of the challenge the far right poses to civil society
It is just over a year since Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of the world’s eighth largest economy, Brazil, following a campaign fuelled by aggressive fake news, and in spite – or because – of regressive views on women, gay people, climate change, poverty and the country’s military dictatorship.
On every indicator on which we commonly regard Donald Trump as bad, Bolsonaro is worse. Trump believes in gun rights; Bolsonaro believes the police ...
