Two months of a government doomed to failure.

The Bolsonaro government is only two months old, but it's already showing clear signs of wear and tear. The first two months were marked by the captain's blatant unpreparedness to occupy the highest office in the Republic, corruption allegations within his party, and crushing defeats in Congress. The result is extremely low government approval (38.9%, according to an MDA/CNT poll) and a feeling of abandonment and misrule, even for those who supported his candidacy in 2018. Under the watchful eyes of his power-hungry vice president, the captain's ship is showing clear signs that it may sink prematurely. And the country needs to prepare for that.

The insecurity of an inept government is blatant. Bolsonaro and his team frequently yield to pressure, change the course of their strategies, and demonstrate a lack of decisiveness in leading the country. Sérgio Moro, the "super-minister" of Justice, agreed, after suffering pressure, to split his controversial anti-crime package. More recently, he revoked the appointment of the highly qualified Ilona Szabó to the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy. The appointment, which would have given more legitimacy to the ministry, being exclusively technical, was undone due to the dissatisfaction of Bolsonaro's supporters, for the sole reason that she was against the policy of arming the population. The president himself revoked the decree on data secrecy, for fear of suffering a defeat in the Senate, as happened in the Chamber of Deputies. The government had already backtracked several times, such as in the controversial merger of the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture.

Other cases of insecurity and unpreparedness involving top-level officials bordered on the bizarre. The most recent example was the Minister of Education's decision not to film students singing the National Anthem. "It was a mistake," acknowledged Ricardo Velez. The Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, had already backtracked on a controversial statement that boys should wear blue and girls pink. "Boys and girls can wear blue, pink, colorful clothes, whatever makes them feel best," she declared to UOL in an interview.

But Bolsonaro's term is not just one of "backtracking" and unpreparedness. In just two months, there is ample evidence of corruption. The crisis generated by the PSL's "front men" seems to worsen every day. An advisor to Flávio Bolsonaro declared to the Public Prosecutor's Office that he transferred two-thirds of his salary to Queiroz every month. Queiroz himself confessed to illicit practices in managing Flávio's resources at the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly (Alerj). In the meantime, there was also the scandal of the front candidates from the President's party, which needs to be clarified, the controversy with Bebianno, and disagreements involving the president's offspring. These are many shady cases for someone who promised to be the exponent of a new kind of politics.

The assessment of the first two months of the Bolsonaro government could not be worse. It was two months of inefficiency, corruption, unpreparedness, and internal disagreements. In this state, it's difficult to imagine Bolsonaro remaining in power for the next 46 months. Some are already saying that his vice-president, General Mourão, is a serious contender to soon wear the presidential sash. In any case, we can expect changes in the leadership of the Republic. It is clear that the captain's government is doomed to failure.