This is a fair critique of how the PT gets lionized by some of the international left but it does seem to leave off that Temer has been less popular, less legitimate, yet remains in officehttps://medium.com/@bernajurema/4-things-the-international-left-gets-wrong-about-brazils-political-crisis-9de8c02604bf …
I totally agree with your criticism, and perhaps because for me it is so obvious -- the gains under PT are undeniable. But equally true is that the accommodation with the political and economic establishment, a core of Lulismo, ultimately undermined those very gains!