Congratulations began to arrive on Sunday (30) night. My cell phone vibrated with messages from Americans who had the word “relief” in common. No Brazilian election has made the rest of the world hold its breath like this.
In addition to celebrating the defeat of Brazil’s most odious, corrupt and debauched leader, my friends in the US showed a hint of envy — and it wasn’t just for the speed of the results.
They commented on the haste with which the monster’s allies recognized Lula’s victory; the fact that no institutional power contested the cleanliness of the process; and the clear sky of coup clouds from the wing that pilots the tanks, a factor of speculation in the English-language coverage.
In the case of the officer corps so scandalously pampered by the jagunço who planned to send some bombs as a gift to their commanders, there is another story that the Americans do not know and that has yet to be told. It’s about the role of a certain nuclear power, over the course of months, communicating to the olive gang upstairs the price of sending the tanks out onto the street.
I even know of a prominent leftist from Lula’s college of cardinals who, late last year, asked, in alarm, an old well-connected interlocutor of Uncle Sam’s if Uncle Biden was paying enough attention to the frenzy of the Tupiniquim militia. After a few phone calls, the obsequious gringo replied that yes, the impending octogenarian in the White House would not doze off in political and commercial retaliation. How good it is to justify the crimes of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping under the coziness of the imperialist Satan of the North.
Part of my American friends’ heartache is due to the fact that they discovered that their democracy, after nearly two and a half centuries, doesn’t need tanks to be assassinated. If it happens, it will be a death slowly heralded and sanctioned by an 18th-century constitution that defies reform.
The first cannon shots from the far right will come from the polls next Tuesday. The scammers will not scream hysterically “God, country and family”. Those elected from state and federal deputies, mayors, governors and officials from the various state bureaucracy will take office legally with detailed demolition plans already in place.
Voting rights, even tougher abortion, theocratic control of schools, environmental backlash — the plans vary from state to state, but they have national coordination in the Republican Party.
In Congress, under the seemingly inevitable Republican majority, leaves Nancy Pelosi, enters Kevin McCarthy, a politician for whom the phrase “every man has his price” was invented. We don’t know if he accepts bitcoins yet, but he’s rubbing his hands with the possibilities.
As of January, in the Chamber, investigations have been coming with a vengeful impetus, starting with the controversial Hunter Biden, the president’s son. Democratic lawmakers who excelled in Donald Trump’s two impeachments should be kicked out of committees. The results of the investigation of the attempted coup d’état on January 6, 2021 will be ignored — and with the cruel refinement that deputies whose lives were threatened on Capitol Hill will see supporters of the invasion raised to leadership positions.
Next Wednesday will be my turn to text. of condolences.
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