How the Radical Right Takeover in Brazil Has Parallels With Trumpism
(World News Brazil)

The hard right is running the country without being elected after Dilma Rousseff´s impeachment last year. It has surprising support among the new lower-middle class. There was victory in the air at the opening of the Liberty Forum in Porto Alegre this April. The city is known outside Brazil as the first municipality to come under the control of the leftwing Workers´ Party (PT) in 1998 and as birthplace of the World Social Forum, but has also hosted this annual meeting of Brazil´s ultra-liberal right for 30 years; the forum used to be restricted to insiders, but has now turned into a jamboree. With the 2,600-seat auditorium full throughout the event, the speakers were happy: `Neoliberal...