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If it were up to the country’s eager pot-bangers, social media warriors, some church leaders and assorted political discontents, Bolsonaro would no doubt be toast. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/as-covid-19-kills-more-brazilians-bolsonaro-s-presidency-lives-on?srnd=opinion&sref=DkwhcgB9
As it happens, Brazilians, who helped cashier two of the nation’s last five presidents, turning impeachment practically into a recall vote, remain ambivalent about the fumbler in the palace.
The Bolsonaro method is familiar by now: Blunder and bloviate, antagonize rivals, punch down at civil society critics while purring at power, fire ministers who embarrass him and double back whenever convenient.
Hence, the ravages of the pandemic he dissed as a bout of sniffles and a menace only to “pansies” are now, we are to believe, the oeuvre of imprudent local leaders.
Hence, the ravages of the pandemic he dissed as a bout of sniffles and a menace only to “pansies” are now, we are to believe, the oeuvre of imprudent local leaders.
“The self-styled Brazilian outsider has become the consummate political insider,” says political analyst Fernando Schuler, at Sao Paulo’s Insper business school.
