the Supreme Court did a double disservice to the cause it served. First, it threw a bucket of hot fire at the momentum. Second, it renewed the exposure of the class’s DNA at a time when it is looking for normalization.
As a result, he loses above all (), the former president who had tried to lend the legitimacy of the American ballot box to his idol, , and use it in his own favor.
In Bolsonaro’s reasoning, if such a thing is structured like this, Trump’s unequivocal victory anticipated the climate of 2026 and the inevitability of the reversal not of the sentence of those convicted of the 2022 attempt in , but rather of his own ineligibility.
The amnesty argument is echoed even in the PT, Washington Quaquá, that it could “reconcile the country” — thus suggesting the usefulness of having Bolsonaro in the running in 2026 for Lula.
The history of back-and-forth convictions of the Supreme Court, arrest in the second instance as it were, provided arguments for the Bolsonarist camp to believe that their leader’s amnesty was possible, even though there were no actual signs of this in the legal field.
It matters little: for Bolsonaro, if Trump came back, he will come back. The expressive vote of the conservative and centrist camp in the municipal elections, despite and not because of the former president, was equally hijacked by the rhetoric of accommodation.
He failed to coordinate with his supporters, made up of radicalized fringes like Francisco Wanderley Luiz, when he saw that he could not even damage the statue of Justice blindfolded in front of the Supreme Court.
The argumentative juggling act of Bolsonaro and others after the attack targets the reasoning that Luiz was a madman motivated by the injustice of the world around him, whose attack inspires “reflection”.
Any individual who decides to blow himself up in public is deserving of psychological support, of course, but making it a version of what Oscar-winning Joaquin Phoenix experienced in the 2019 film is an excessive exaggeration — even with the mistaken script that victimized the villain. .
The comparison with another DC baddie, the Riddler, seems more accurate. There, the moral and social justification, so to speak, of the terrorist’s acts was exposed as psychopathy, amplified by the toxicity of the environment.
In the B-movie underway in Brasília, the tragedy of the defeated candidate for councilor for Bolsonaro’s PL in 2020 ends up exposing the colors worn by Political violence, something that never left the Brazilian landscape, is normalized among them as a legal means.
Who has never heard something like “I had to kill all these politicians” from an acquaintance? Obviously, 99.9% of those who utter these vituperations wouldn’t even kill an ant, but the rest of the equation, like Luiz, perhaps.
If the incident on Wednesday (13) does not remove the severity of the penalties or the possible abuses of his crusade against coup and fake news from the discussion, the Supreme Court minister certainly leaves the episode with renewed vigor.
suggests the combativeness to come, being bad news for a Bolsonaro who, as always on the back of Trump, sought to accelerate towards 2026.
