Bolsonaro and the authoritarian instincts of today’s Brazil

Edited and Reviewed by Giovanna Imbernon and Anna Paula Bennech. "Since his campaign, Bolsonaro has shown authoritarian features, and many of them were copied and articulated by the former Trump’s strategist, Steve Bannon. Among them is the use of social networks as a monitoring tool, to contro...

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Main Author: Claudia Pires de Castro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Research and Studies Blog 2021-07-01
Series:BRaS Blog
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Online Access:https://bras-center.com/bolsonaro-and-the-authoritarian-instincts-of-todays-brazil/
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Summary:Edited and Reviewed by Giovanna Imbernon and Anna Paula Bennech. "Since his campaign, Bolsonaro has shown authoritarian features, and many of them were copied and articulated by the former Trump’s strategist, Steve Bannon. Among them is the use of social networks as a monitoring tool, to control political decisions that consider the volatile circumstances of public opinion. Therefore, Bolsonaro has no clear plan for politics and uses social networks to orient his decisions, his government neutralizes the power of the Press to direct the political debate, and also uses some kind of chaos management through recurring political half-truths, underpinned by a moral traditionalism."
ISSN:2701-4924