The right no longer needs it. She owes him the credit for taking her out of the closet, but her outbursts turned him into a backstop. The patron of chloroquine, who said he had “my Army”, became an evil spirit leaning on the old national conservatism.
After all, a right that had Roberto Campos, Eugênio Gudin and Castello Branco will have lost a lot in quality, but with Bolsonaro it gained in quantity, electing a president and large parliamentary groups. Whoever has and is governing Goiás has produced qualified personnel for new flights. This is the path of logic, but the Brazilian right suffers from suicidal opportunism.
In 1959, in the National Democratic Union, the birthplace of conservatism, there was a candidate for President. It was Juracy Magalhães, lieutenant from 1930, former governor of Bahia and first president of Petrobras. The party decided to support the candidacy of Jânio Quadros. A brilliant career demagogue, without any party ties capable of taking him to power.
According to the joke, Jânio was “the drunk UDN”. It did what it did.
Years later, already during the dictatorship, conservatism took over Marshal Castello Branco, an austere reformer. Suicidal opportunism led the conservative base of the regime to embrace military anarchy and the candidacy of the Minister of War, General Costa e Silva. What happened was Institutional Act No. 5 and the crisis resulting from cerebral ischemia that incapacitated him in August 1969.
This right wing that eats with a knife and fork found its opportunity in Jair Bolsonaro. The 2018 election was a conservative affair and the former captain ended up leaving Palácio do Planalto much more because of the PT’s mistakes than because of his qualities.
Bolsonaro’s latest outburst, against an ankle bracelet, stunned even his allies. Belated astonishment at a character who doubted vaccines during an epidemic that killed 700,000 people and believed in the research of an American company that was trying to transmit electricity without the use of wires. (In the scene in which a nobleman sold Bolsonaro this wonderful idea, the Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio de Freitas, distanced himself.)
The former captain who remembers what he did in 1987, drawing a puerile graph of a pipeline explosion, and managed to find himself exonerated of guilt by the Superior Military Court, has acquired a misunderstanding of what institutions in general and the Judiciary in particular are. He called a Supreme Court minister a “scoundrel”. He announced that he would not comply with court decisions. He flirted with the coup plot against the possession of .
It will be a difficult task to get rid of the backrest without offending him. Bolsonaro’s children spend more time condemning Tarcísio than Lula and his government. The UDN managed to get rid of Jânio’s support, and the dictatorship’s military commanders got rid of Costa e Silva’s support with his departure from the scene, sending his main military advisor, General Jaime Portela, to second command before sending him to the reserve.
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