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We’re Doing Dog Armies Now, Dr. Craig
Some weeks the abyss stares back. This week it blinked. Dr. Craig Johnson, the UC Berkeley lecturer with a PhD in Global Fascism Studies, opens this episode of Autocratic Despair at a five, a full reset, the lowest number he’s ever given, and the reason is Brazil. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday’s runoff to win a fourth term as president, becoming, by Craig’s account, the first candidate in Brazilian history to lose the first round and win the second. A month ago, after Flávio’s first-round win, the far right’s return in Brazil looked inevitable. The polls said so…
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