https://brazilian.report/opinion/2022/11/18/trump-us-midterms-election-bolsonaro/
Repudiation of numerous radical pro-Trump candidates suggests Brazilian voters, too, may grow tired of the most extreme elements of Bolsonarismo
Until recently, Donald Trump’s post-2020 election strategy seemed highly attractive to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. Despite losing his re-election bid, Mr. Trump managed to retain the support of a sizeable part of the Republican electorate and in the recent primaries, pro-Trump candidates successfully ousted more moderate politicians such as Liz Cheney, a congresswoman from Wyoming.
The continued support for Mr. Trump and his role as Joe Biden’s most likely challenger in 2024 also made it riskier for the U.S. Justice system to prosecute the former television star: it is one thing to put a former president behind bars, quite another to imprison the leader of the opposition.
Finally, the sizable number of Trump voters who believe the 2020 elections were stolen — despite no evidence suggesting fraud — has deepened polarization and made governing the country more….
