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SUPPORTERS OF BRAZIL’S far-right President Jair Bolsonaro are organizing online to take to the streets on Tuesday and begin the overthrow of the country’s democratic institutions. “It’s all or nothing now,” said an unnamed narrator in a video shared in pro-Bolsonaro online messaging groups. “Take the streets this September 7 or we’ll be slaves.” 

 

It’s no coincidence that the first decree under Brazil’s U.S.-backed military dictatorship was called “Operation Cleanse.” The diktat, issued in 1964, as the generals took power, initiated a witch hunt to remove leftists and other political opponents from positions of power and began two decades of brutal political repression that included censorship, mass arrests, torture, rape, and assassinations.

 

Brazil’s far right is calling back to that history, without the wink-and-nod, to restore their order at the expense of democracy. The hard right believes that, since the military relinquished control in 1985, Brazil has deteriorated. A rejuvenated “communism,” they say, must again be purged, resisted, and battled back by any means possible.

 

In online groups for organizing the September 7 rally, the zeal for undoing democratic institutions was on full display. Pro-Bolsonaro activists, for instance, offered suggestions for banners: “Remove all the Supreme Court ministers,” one read, while another said, “Activate the Armed Forces.” If things line up, Bolsonaro will gaze on these slogans in person: He will reportedly speak at the rallies in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, and Brasília, the capital. Other smaller events will occur across the country as well.

 

The posturing of pro-Bolsonaro figures ahead of the September 7 rally feels not unlike the run-up to the January 6 Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., which aimed to overturn the electoral defeat of President Donald Trump on the spurious grounds of mass electoral fraud. There’s a president with waning popularity, a fervent, gun-loving minority that sees defeat as an impossibility, and a pulsing desperation making them ready to take matters into their own hands

 

While large nationwide protests and pro-coup messaging in Brazil are hardly new, Bolsonaro’s declining political prospects and escalating attacks against the Supreme Court suggest that September 7 could portend a more serious threat to Brazil’s 35-year-old democracy.

 

Rep. Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president’s son and a former Federal Police officer, has served as an unofficial ambassador to Trump World in recent years and was in Washington, D.C.. meetings with Trump’s inner circle before and after the Capitol riot. Eduardo is also close with Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon, who is under investigation by Brazil’s Federal Police for his suspected role in attacks on the country’s electoral system. The two appear to have been studying the American case to learn from past mistakes. 

 

 

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https://theintercept.com/2021/09/05/bolsonaro-september-7-brazil-trump-january-6/