Brazil’s presidential election in October will be about the economy

“THIS IS NOT a fight of left against right,” Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s conservative populist president, told a rally in Brasília on March 27th. “It’s a fight between good and evil.” His opponents see the election on October 2nd, in which Mr Bolsonaro will seek a second term, in similarly apocalyptic terms. Many worry that Brazilian democracy would not survive another four years of Mr Bolsonaro, an avowed authoritarian who is contemptuous of the judiciary and the separation of powers. With the stakes so high, Brazil is on the threshold of a dirty and divisive campaign in which disinformation will be the norm and, some fear, violence a possibility.