THE ELECTION OF BOLSONARO
Interview with Alain de Benoist (edited by Nicolas Gauthier)
Elected president of Brazil last October with over 55% of suffrages, Jair Bolsonaro has assumed his duties. The left, who multiplies the anathemas against him (homophobic, sexist, racist etc.), speaks of a new wave of "populism" and says that his victory makes all the "right and far right" of the world rejoice. She's part of it?
Not at all. Bolsonaro has certainly benefited from the current wave of populism and has captured the votes of the popular classes who previously voted for the Workers' Party; but populism, I want to remember that, it does not have a precise ideological content. It's just a style, a way of matching political supply and demand; and this style can be combined with very different ideologies (Luiz Inácio Lula, the former president, he was also a “populist”). The right always gets Pavlovian when it hears that "law and order" will be restored.. The problem is that the law can be unjust and that order is often a legal disorder.
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