"In his march towards power, Bolsonaro ditched any remnants of the statist economics that traditionally attaches to the far right ..." https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/10/brazil-set-elect-fascist-president-and-business-board … ("Fascist" here clearly just means the left don't like him.)
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Replying to @Outsideness
he hasn't. the left wants to glue that one on liberals, but the dude just gave an interview saying he won't privitize basically anything, that social security reform isn't going to be very radical, and that he's actually going to expand social spending.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Outsideness
again, he's just the average South American military officer. much more similar to Chavez than Pinochet (and even the latter only got to the Chicago boys way later, through a lot of convincing).
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Around 1999, he said that he admired Chavez and wanted to speak with him. His original rise to fame was complaining about poor pay in the military. People can change..but how much?
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