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Brazilian presidential elections and the future of democracy w/ Pedro Charbel and David Adler

The Red Nation Podcast

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Is There a Tendency to Confusion a Local Tendent for International Tendences?

Brazil is a very class-aligned country in ways that listeners in the so-called global north or in the United States may be used to like education polarization and it's really not where we're at here in Brazil. I think that what's really interesting about Bolsonaro's fault is that because of the pandemic and because of his absence of leadership and effective management of this country, the economy was destroyed. So all these social issues became social crises under his leadership. But I worry there's a tendency to read that history backwards as opposed to forwards. If the pandemic didn't happen, would Bolsonaro di Smol have been such an unstable mode of political economy that some of

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