The Right’s Ill-Conceived Bolsonaro Gambit

Since losing his reelection bid, incumbent Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has remained conspicuously silent, but his American supporters certainly haven’t. North of the equator, the newly unleashed bird is ablaze, with Yankee Bolsonaristas sounding off about the “injustice” perpetrated by the ex-convict and once and future leftist president, Lula de Silva.

To no one’s surprise, the usual suspects of suspicion cried electoral fraud with zero corroborating evidence faster than Michael Scott could declare bankruptcy. Unfortunately, they were not alone. There are too many believers in a kind of warped neo-Kirkpatrick Doctrine that would see Bolsanaro remain in charge of Brazil, whatever it takes.

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Bobby Miller

Bobby Miller is an ISI Fellow at National Review and a graduate student at Georgetown University.

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Since losing his reelection bid, incumbent Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has remained conspicuously silent, but his American supporters certainly haven’t. North of the equator, the newly unleashed bird is ablaze, with Yankee Bolsonaristas sounding off about the “injustice” perpetrated by the ex-convict and once and future leftist president, Lula de Silva.

To no one’s surprise, the usual suspects of suspicion cried electoral fraud with zero corroborating evidence faster than Michael Scott could declare bankruptcy. Unfortunately, they were not alone. There are too many believers in a kind of warped neo-Kirkpatrick Doctrine that would see Bolsanaro remain in charge of Brazil, whatever it takes.