{"id":138166,"date":"2021-09-08T20:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=138166"},"modified":"2021-09-08T20:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:07:49","slug":"trumps-maga-movement-sets-its-sights-on-brazils-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/trumps-maga-movement-sets-its-sights-on-brazils-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s MAGA Movement Sets Its Sights On Brazil\u2019s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As supporters of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro staged anti-democratic demonstrations in major cities across Brazil on Tuesday, the country\u2019s top law enforcement body briefly focused its attention on a far-right activist from the United States: For more than three hours, Brazil\u2019s Federal Police <\/span>detained Jason Miller<\/span>, an ex-spokesman for former U.S. President Donald Trump, at the airport in Bras\u00edlia, as he tried to leave the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tuesday rallies, meant to demonstrate popular support for a \u201ccountercoup\u201d against Brazil\u2019s institutions as Bolsonaro continues to spread Trump-like lies about voter fraud ahead of next year\u2019s election, did not result in an explicit Jan. 6-style storming of Brazil\u2019s National Congress or its Supreme Court, <\/span>as some analysts feared it might<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it came close \u2014 at least three times, supporters of the president tried to storm through police lines protecting Congress, only to be repelled, <\/span>according to The Associated Press<\/span>. There were at least seven such attempts nearby at the Supreme Court, <\/span>Folha de S.Paulo reported<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rallies were smaller than originally forecast but still large enough to showcase the danger Bolsonaro and his supporters pose to the world\u2019s fourth-largest democracy. Many participants carried signs calling for an immediate military takeover of the government, an outcome Bolsonaro has said may be necessary. Speaking to a crowd in Bras\u00edlia, the capital, Bolsonaro again suggested that there may not be elections in the fall of 2022 if they are not conducted on his terms. Later, in S\u00e3o Paulo, he leveled new threats against the Supreme Court justices who have refuted his election conspiracies and are investigating \u201canti-democratic acts\u201d committed by Bolsonaro and his allies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s that probe that led to Miller\u2019s questioning, <\/span>according to Metr\u00f3poles<\/span>, a Bras\u00edlia-based news outlet. Details are scant beyond that. Miller, who was in Bras\u00edlia to attend CPAC Brasil, said in a Tuesday afternoon statement that he faced no accusations of wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Miller was never likely to face real legal troubles. As the foot soldiers of Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement continue to flock to Brazil in an effort to help Bolsonaro succeed where they failed, the Supreme Court seemed most intent on sending a signal to meddling Americans that they best butt out of the country\u2019s affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that they will bring, let\u2019s say, the expertise of Trump to Brazil for the next election is basically what they\u2019re worried about,\u201d said Thomas Traumann, a Brazilian political analyst. \u201cIt\u2019s just to say, don\u2019t mess around with Brazil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bolsonaro sees Trump as a model for his own presidency, and it\u2019s no secret Bolsonaro\u2019s efforts to hang onto office despite cratering popularity are based on those of Trump. He fashioned his campaign off the American\u2019s, and has governed like Trump too. But despite Bolsonaro\u2019s best efforts to forge a lasting bond with Trump himself, the strongest links between the two leaders developed at a level below the presidency, among their most radical advisers and allies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolsonaro\u2019s son Eduardo, a congressman, aligned himself early with alt-right Trump confidant Steve Bannon, who wrapped Eduardo into his aspiring internationalist \u201cMovement.\u201d In 2019, ahead of the elder Bolsonaro\u2019s first official visit to the U.S. as president, Bannon and Eduardo Bolsonaro <\/span>co-hosted a curtain-raising event<\/span> at the Trump International Hotel in Washington that presaged the Brazilian\u2019s future as a <\/span>sweetheart of the MAGA movement<\/span>, which f\u00eated Eduardo as an up-and-coming star at last year\u2019s Conservative Political Action Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two movements were always aligned in their <\/span>conspiratorial view<\/span> of the world, their <\/span>overly macho<\/span> politics of grievance, and <\/span>their autocratic whims<\/span>. But ties between them have strengthened in the wake of Trump\u2019s election loss, and as Bolsonaro faces his own future. Polls for next year\u2019s contest show Bolsonaro running well behind his most likely challenger, the leftist former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro is an authoritarian with little respect for democracy, but it\u2019s his <\/span>weakened status<\/span> that best explains the <\/span>scale of his current attacks<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August, Eduardo Bolsonaro <\/span>traveled to the U.S.<\/span> to attend a conference alongside Bannon and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell \u2015 one of the most strident believers in Trump\u2019s conspiracy theories \u2015 where Bannon falsely asserted that Brazil\u2019s election system was rife with fraud. Brazilians widely interpreted the younger Bolsonaro\u2019s attendance, and Bannon\u2019s direct invocation of Brazil, as a promise that the president would contest the results of the election next year, and that <\/span>he\u2019d get an assist from Trumpworld<\/span> when he did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last weekend\u2019s CPAC Brasil event, meanwhile, was littered with talk of existential threats to the conservative vision of \u201cfreedom,\u201d primarily from its American attendees, who\u2019ve come to see Brazil as fruitful ground on which to wage the next stage of the MAGA war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a speech to CPAC Brasil, Tennessee Rep. Mark Green \u2015 <\/span>one of 147 Republicans<\/span> who still voted to overturn Trump\u2019s loss in last year\u2019s election after the Capitol insurrection \u2015 promised to fight \u201c<\/span>even against my own administration<\/span>\u201d to preserve a right-wing relationship between the U.S. and Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBrazil is where we can have hope for the conservative movement,\u201d Donald Trump Jr., son of the erstwhile president, said during a keynote speech delivered remotely because of flight problems, <\/span>according to The Brazilian Report<\/span>. \u201cWhat we saw in my country is just a fraction of what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Trump presidency, and the MAGA movement as a whole, was an unabashed grift, and it\u2019s more than plausible that this is all merely an extension of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bannon, as Andre Pagliarini <\/span>wrote for The New Republic<\/span> last month, sees in Brazil a chance for the sort of influence he was unable to find in Europe, and potentially a way to continue the charade that led to his indictment here on fraud and money laundering charges. The American Conservative Union, which stages CPAC, has another lucrative event to hold. Miller, now the CEO of the new social media site Gettr, has claimed that Brazilians make up the largest non-U.S. contingent of members on his new right-wing platform. Jair Bolsonaro is one of them, while Trump is not; Miller\u2019s fledgling Twitter alternative may have more potential social clout and financial promise even in a country where WhatsApp and Telegram have <\/span>cornered the misinformation market<\/span> than it does back home.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s hard not to think that the sort of American eager for a level of violence not even their own insurrection managed to achieve, or for the dramatic democratic rupture it failed to immediately produce, might get something even more out of all this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolsonaro has spent the last three years stocking his government with military men, and the last few months attempting to <\/span>persuade the Brazilian armed forces<\/span> \u2015 which ruled by dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 \u2015 to join the cause of this particular coup. Tuesday\u2019s rallies were organized with the explicit purpose of altering the military\u2019s calculus further in his favor, and while they <\/span>probably weren\u2019t strong enough<\/span> to accomplish that goal, the sort of full-on coup many Trumpers wouldn\u2019t have minded seeing in the U.S., while still unlikely, is not off the table quite yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolsonaro\u2019s most radical supporters did not need Jan. 6 to inspire their own drastic acts against Brazil\u2019s institutions \u2014 some of them have been calling for the closure of Congress and the Supreme Court and a return to military rule since before Bolsonaro took office. But the Brazilian rallies drew from the Capitol riot Trump and his allies fomented: In S\u00e3o Paulo, one protester dressed up like the infamous <\/span>\u201cQAnon Shaman\u201d rioter<\/span> who stormed into the Capitol. Many demonstrators carried signs emblazoned with slogans written in English, not Portuguese.<\/span><\/p>\n

To people like Miller and Trump Jr., Brazil is the scene for the sort of rogue fantasy they didn\u2019t get to fully experience at home. Bolsonaro and his supporters see them as brilliant strategic minds with something to offer, as opposed to the simple-minded, one-trick ponies they are. This, in turn, feeds Trumpworld\u2019s own delusion about the level of influence they have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly conscious of the risk this all poses (and the lack of a response from other institutions), Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court has positioned itself as the last guardian of the country\u2019s democracy. It has arrested and jailed numerous people for financing or financially benefiting from anti-democratic activities and misinformation, and has refuted Bolsonaro\u2019s claims of electoral fraud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s brief detainment may ultimately prove a small piece of the overall story, but it\u2019s a window into one of its more worrying dynamics. Every move the court makes in an effort to protect itself and Brazil\u2019s democracy provokes yet another threat to it. On Tuesday, two Bolsonaro advisers who\u2019ve helped forge links with the MAGA crowd <\/span>rushed to the airport<\/span> to assist Miller. Later, Bolsonaro cited \u201can intercepted American\u201d as one reason for his decision to \u201c<\/span>no longer comply<\/span>\u201d with any future ruling from Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice leading the probe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are three options for me: be jailed, killed or victorious,\u201d Bolsonaro screamed to supporters in S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cI\u2019m letting the scoundrels know: I\u2019ll never be imprisoned!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The court has no choice but to respond, and it plans to Wednesday. But each subsequent volley risks the sort of escalation Brazil\u2019s other institutions may be unable or unwilling to withstand, especially if Congress remains content on the sidelines, or if the military\u2019s top brass continues to leave open the question about its <\/span>potential support for a coup<\/span> instead of denouncing Bolsonaro\u2019s authoritarian maneuvers and removing itself from the equation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t worried about Sept. 7; I\u2019m worried about Sept. 8,\u201d Traumann said Tuesday evening. \u201cTomorrow, what will the institutions do?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller and company are back in the U.S. now. But one gets the sense they\u2019re eager for the show. <\/span><\/p>\n

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