The criminal events of the last week show that the Bolsonarista movement can exist, and even thrive, in the most adverse conditions. An ancestral technique of activism, the blocking of highways was a masterpiece of militant articulation.
Without this coordinated and integrated action, led by fanatics who accepted to take physical and legal risks overnight, the extreme right would have filled a handful of squares and dissipated in the indifference of the majority of the population in a matter of days.
The success of this initiative also reveals that one of the creative engines of Bolsonarism is imitation through imports in the aesthetic, logistical and technological sense. Last week’s move is inspired by the mega-mobilization against Canada’s health restrictions, when the “Freedom Train” blocked the capital Ottawa for the first two months of 2022.
The French far right, which had already discovered the power of road closures during the Yellow Vests rebellion, tried to replicate the strategy a year later against Emmanuel Macron. Another “Freedom Train” was launched towards Paris and Brussels in the midst of the presidential campaign.
Now, Bolsonaristas await the midterm elections in the United States to define the next stages of their response to the presidential elections. An eventual defeat of the Democrats in the House and Senate would block the Joe Biden administration’s nominations in the Executive, Judiciary and even embassies. Central axes of its program would be compromised, such as the implementation of reforms against climate change and the war effort in Ukraine.
Above all, the election should mark the coming to power of a new generation of republicans linked to the new extreme right-wing movements. They entered politics with the promise of displacing traditional Republicans, who, according to them, betrayed Donald Trump in the 2020 electoral process. the democracies.
Nothing is decided. Barack Obama and Biden passed through Pennsylvania this week, where Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman could lose to television celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz. In Georgia, if no candidate gets 50%, a new playoff will be organized in January.
But the United States is not the only democracy where the successes of the extreme right can serve as a reference for Bolsonarism. In France, President Macron, who faces an ungovernable National Assembly, is already laying the groundwork for a new legislative election.
A high-risk maneuver, which could lead to the election of a bench of deputies dominated by the extreme right, similar to what has just happened in Italy. The multiplication of lame-duck presidents is another factor to be taken into account in Brazil’s new international insertion strategy.
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