Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro has forced a runoff election later this month and may very well be the next Brazilian president. Check out this mainstream take:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/20...-latest-menace
It's supposed to be a takedown, but all it really does is make him sound like an excellent leader.
A few choice excerpts:
He said he would not rape a congresswoman because she was “very ugly”; he said he would prefer a dead son to a gay one; and he suggested that people who live in settlements founded by escaped slaves are fat and lazy.An evangelical Christian, he mixes social conservatism with economic liberalism, to which he has recently converted. His main economic adviser is Paulo Guedes, who was educated at the University of Chicago, a bastion of free-market ideas. He favours the privatisation of all Brazil’s state-owned companies and 'brutal' simplification of taxes. Mr Bolsonaro proposes to slash the number of ministries from 29 to 15, and to put generals in charge of some of them.This is the future of libertarianism. A populist strongman leader with vision who is willing to do what must be done to acquire power. Not some pie-in-the-sky intellectual talking about axioms or weird lifestyle libertines who would have been at home in the Weather Underground. Godspeed future president Bolsonaro!Mr Bolsonaro’s answer to crime is, in effect, to kill more criminals—
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