Bolsonaro made Lula sorely missed.

On December 31, 2022, the most dramatic period in the country's recent history comes to an end. Now, there will be no more end to the mediocrity, ignorance, perversity, insensitivity, insanity, indolence, irresponsibility, and dishonesty of the one who concludes his infamous reign of terror by affronting and oppressing the society that elected him.

Many will rightly say that the lucidity that the Bolsonaro-era horror instilled in Brazilian society and the community of nations does not compensate for all the harm it has done and that will never be undone, since the lives taken by Bolsonaro will not be recovered. 

However, the Bolsonaro era had one merit—if one can call it that, given that it was so bad that it forced the most misguided sectors of our society to wake up to reality. 

Despite the neoliberal delusions of mainstream media editorialists, the current body of work of the former four horsemen of the apocalypse—those once known as the coup-mongering media—shows that society has matured. 

Globo Organizations, Folha Group, Estado Group, and Veja magazine have abandoned the virulent anti-PT sentiment that brought down Dilma Rousseff and imprisoned Lula for 580 infamous days. And, incredibly, the media outlet that has been closest to Lula, that has showered him with praise and given him literally VIP treatment, is the same outlet that has most fiercely opposed the PT since 1989 until Bolsonaro began to make society as a whole compare the PT era of Lula and Dilma with the Bolsonaro reality. 

One of the PT's biggest adversaries in the media, Globo columnist Demétrio Magnoli, for example, even offered a mea culpa regarding the media coup that ousted Dilma, even though he makes excuses for what he did. But admitting that it was wrong to oust the former president is a big step. 

And the United States? Bolsonaro made the United States adhere to legality, rationality, and democracy beyond its borders as well. Of course, Donald Trump, with moral and intellectual misery equivalent to Bolsonaro's, helped. But we all know that without the Empire prohibiting the military coup that Bolsonaro wanted to carry out, Lula would not be taking office as President on January 1, 2023.

Among the political class, historical adversaries of Lula and the PT, and former allies who became political enemies, such as Marina Silva, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a large part of the PSOL, among others, "became like Lula" upon realizing how happy Brazil was with Lula and his party.

Finally, if Lula's first two terms were so good despite the sabotage from the media and a large part of the political class, with the support and sympathy of that same media and those same right-wing and left-wing politicians, the new president of Brazil could have a historic term, taking this country where it should have been a long time ago. Let's celebrate, then.