The fascist escalation via the Judiciary.

In Brazil, we are experiencing a fascist escalation that, as occurred in European countries in the last century, is advancing due to the inability of Brazilian society to recognize this movement, allowing the dismantling of the Nation and the destruction of the democratic rule of law.

To be clear, I understand fascism as a reaction of capitalism to moments of economic crisis. In the Brazilian case, the protagonists of this process are in the Judiciary.

The fascistization of the Judiciary is showing its first signs in the case of Criminal Action 470, known as the "mensalão" scandal. There, the limits imposed by the codes and principles of law that underpinned the democratic pact of the 1988 Constituent Assembly are trampled upon. The "mensalão" scandal was based on falsified and manipulated evidence, clearly demonstrating the intentions of sectors of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) to establish themselves as a political power.

Like the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) played a central role in weakening Brazilian democracy by abdicating its responsibility to defend the Constitution.

It was there that fascism found a way to spread beyond the Judiciary, through the anti-corruption slogan, in a campaign so hateful that it allowed the destruction of Brazilian engineering and civil construction, the elimination of hundreds of thousands of jobs, the deepening of the crisis – which was already growing due to the fall in commodity prices and the misguided economic policy of the Dilma government – ​​and the implementation of a state of exception in the country. Beyond the denationalization of the economy, Lava Jato aims to bury democracy, starting with the destruction of the political party system.

It is becoming increasingly clear that there will be no way out without a broad national consensus project whose primary objective is to defeat Lava Jato. And such consensus inevitably involves ending the persecution of Lula.

At this point, there is already a minimal indication that more centrist sectors are beginning to understand that the injustice imposed on Lula gives new life to the fascist-leaning situation. It is just not known whether this will be enough to put pressure on and encourage the Supreme Federal Court to defend the Constitution, reviewing the second-instance conviction and resuming imprisonment only after the final judgment, thus restoring the principle of presumption of innocence.

Let's see.