Bolsonarism

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Bolsonarism (Portuguese: bolsonarismo) is an ideology or the political movement tied to Jair Bolsonaro and his family. His views, policies, and supporters are variously described as far-right populism and also neo-fascism by scholars and news outlets, although Bolsonaro denied that he is a fascist, and some analysts disagree with such labelling. An alternate suggested term is illiberalism, which other than Bolsonarism includes such movements as Orbanism in Hungary, Trumpism in the United States and Putinism in Russia. Bolsonarism broke out in Brazil with the rise in popularity of Bolsonaro, especially during his campaign in the presidential election in 2018, which elected him as president. The Workers' Party (PT) crisis during the Dilma Rousseff government, precipitated and accelerated by the political-economic crisis of 2014, strengthened Bolsonarist ideology and the Brazilian new right, which are part of the context of the rise of New Right populism at an international level. In politics...

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