Free from Kennedy Alencar Bolsonaro, lessons need to be learned from the mistakes of another lost decade 01/01/2023 10:17

How nice to get rid of Jair Bolsonaro. Four years have passed, as the outgoing president admitted on a live broadcast that he threw his radicals into the sea. The air in Brasilia is purer and more breathable.

The biggest threat to Brazilian democracy since 1985 failed when the dictatorship of 1964 ended. On the wings of the FAB, Bolsonaro fled to the United States as a result that deserved his petty. It has returned to the place it deserves, to the dustbin of history.

But the Romans have already taught Caesar what belongs to Caesar.

Bolsonaro was a nightmare created by the press, Lava Jato, and the economic and political elite. The horrors of the last four years started building almost a decade ago.

The demonstrations of June and July 2013 were instrumentalized by far-right movements backed by a global autocratic wave. The 2014 World Cup was inappropriately treated as a joke by the press and much of civil society long before the gruesome 7-1.

But the real defeat for the Germans and their artillery would come when the press surrendered to a person even smaller than Bolsonaro, an uncultured and abusive provincial judge. Sergio Moro had the support of the press in general and Globo in particular to demonize politics with a focus on the PT. He targeted Lula like a trophy. His biggest mistake was to arrest the ex-president.
The press had become the transmission belt of Lava Jato, a lost anti-corruption operation in its early days. Immediately, Delta and Robito began scheduling their high-paying conversations.

In the two years 2014-2015, the duo Aécio Neves-Eduardo Cunha reached and rolled. Aécio and Cunha put Dilma Rousseff under the wall, who started a second term full of mistakes in politics and economics.
However, such mistakes can never justify dismissal without a guilt of liability. In the face of Bolsonaro’s actions during the pandemic, disability legislation has been demoralized. The 2016 parliamentary coup is a legal and historical injustice that needs to be corrected _ I hope he hands the flag to Dilma Lula.

Since then, Lava Jato has sown the seeds of far-right radicalization that has plunged the country into the abyss. The institutional destruction of the Bolsonaro government, the worst in our history with exceptions, is the product of lavajatism angered by the press.

So it’s not about talking about a rematch now. That sounds small compared to the task of saving public policy. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has the difficult task of rebuilding what a new lost decade has destroyed. Yes, it will take unity. It will also be necessary to forgive those who normalized Bolsonaro, saw Sérgio Moro as a strategist, and regarded Paulo Guedes as a beacon of economic thought.

But you mustn’t forget what it is. Forgetting the shameful cardboard will not benefit democracy. It is necessary to learn from the mistakes of the past so that they are not repeated now and in the future.
Democracy won. They didn’t pass, but it was close.

Happy 2023.