The authoritarian playbook the world over is scarily similar. Chip away at personal freedom. Reject pluralism in all forms. Restrict the rights of women and LGBTQI people. Defend “traditional family values”.
As Brazil’s October 2022 presidential election looms closer, far-right Jair Bolsonaro is once again rallying the growing evangelical Christian population who voted en masse for him in 2018. He is attacking abortion rights recently gained in neighboring Colombia and Argentina, and promising Brazil will not follow the same path.
For the first time, his campaign is relying on his wife’s public interventions. To mark Mother’s Day a few weeks ago, she claimed that: “Being a mom is a full-time job... the most divine responsibility of all.”
