Win or lose, Jair Bolsonaro poses a threat to Brazilian democracy
All the signs are that he will lose an election and say he won it
Joe biden was talking about the United States when he warned, on September 1st, that “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated.” He might as well have been talking about Brazil.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The man who would be Trump”
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It should move before the election