[Former president Trump saw Bolsonaro as an ally: Bolsonaro followed Trump’s playbook to rise to the presidency in 2018, governed as Trump did, and worked to delegitimize Lula’s victory even before voting began. In a video statement before the election, Trump called Bolsonaro “one of the great people in all of politics and in all of leadership of countries,” and told voters: “He has my complete and total endorsement…. Don’t lose him. Don’t let that happen. It would not be good for your country.”](https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-31-2022)

Phew … one more authoritarian regime bites the dust. Are you watching America? It can be done … even when the odds are seemingly stacked against you.

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