Hell knows no fury like a rejected man. From Donald Trump to Paulo Guedes, the fools who choose to parade their glittering mediocrity in public, brooding on the rancor of clubs that have not welcomed them as members, may not have the vision to govern, but they cannot tame the destructive rage.
Guedes, who is leaving a dump fire for his successor, kicks his heels with rancor, mimicking the diction of a possible Lula finance minister whose résumé he envies, perhaps because he started out successfully as CEO of an American bank.
Donald Trump, now a resident of Florida, does not boast of his rare visits to New York, where he was born and lived until he moved to the White House in 2017. Most New York voters despise the former president, who threatens a new candidacy for president. White House in 2024.
But the rejection that bothers the most is another. Like Guedes, who was never taken seriously by economists with intellect, academic strength and government plans, Trump was despised by his gang, the titans of New York’s economic elite.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, crime has risen again in New York. But an examination of official statistics for September shows that the metropolis is still safer than it was in 2000, when the city and state were ruled by Republicans.
Unlike the last era of violent crime, marked by New York’s fiscal bankruptcy in the 1970s, which followed the crack epidemic into the 1990s, the new high in crime is ideal ammunition for local Trumpists. They are not the majority, but they have strong allies in the media controlled by Rupert Murdoch.
A Republican congressman who denied the election of Joe Biden now has a shot at being elected governor of the state of New York. Lee Zeldin is anti-abortion, anti-environmental policy and anti-judicial reform to protect incarcerated minorities in disproportionate numbers. He runs a one-note campaign—crime, crime, crime.
If elected, he must roll out the red carpet for the orange ogre. There are those who speculate that he would give pardons as a gift to Trump, who is facing a civil lawsuit by the state and a criminal one in the city against his company.
Recently, director and screenwriter Tony Gilroy (“Risk Conduct”, 2007) recalled the search for a location for the horror film “Devil’s Advocate” (1997). “We wanted the most gaudy and hideous apartment for a businessman,” he said, who grew up in New York, referring to Trump Tower’s penthouse, clad in gold and imitation paintings of the Palace of Versailles.
The penthouse is inhabited in the film by the sociopathic character accused of murdering his wife, stepson and maid. “Trump gave us the key, we didn’t even need to adapt the scenario,” Gilroy recalled. “He came to peek at the footage every day, trying to get close to Charlize Theron. And all of us laughing on set at that crooked clown, the loser who pretended to be rich,” like those who despised him.
Trump has inflicted series defeats on the Republican Party since 2018. But his henchmen have a chance to capture a majority in the House and seats in state legislatures in November. It is no longer hyperbole to say that American and Brazilian democracy are under threat.
If Brazil wakes up on Monday (31) freed from the most repulsive occupant of the Planalto, there is no reason to relax its guard. The rage of the rejects must only increase.
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