Bolsonaro's Own Version Of Jan. 6 Now Feels Inevitable In Brazil
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Brazil's far-right president is following Trump's playbook to undermine 2022 elections. And he's working hard to secure the military support Trump lacked.
On the morning of Aug. 10, Brazilian military tanks paraded through Brasília, past the presidential palace and in front of the country’s National Congress, where lawmakers were debating a constitutional amendment that would overhaul an election system widely considered one of the safest and most efficient in the world. Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has spent months studiously mimicking former U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to stop the supposed “steal” of the election he lost last November. The far-right Brazilian leader has stoked similar unfounded conspiracies about widespread voting fraud, sparking fears that he was laying the groundwork for his own version of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The tanks parading through Brasília, the country’s capital, heightened concerns that Bolsonaro and his allies ― including his son Eduardo, a congressman and ally of alt-right Trump confidant Steve Bannon ― were also taking early steps to avoid one of the key failures that prevented Trump’s own authoritarian project from succeeding: His inability to convince leaders of the armed forces to join him.
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