Globo staged the last spectacle of the shattered right wing.

By Moisés Mendes, for 247

Yesterday's debate on Globo was devastating for the Brazilian right. It exposed what remains of what amounts to anti-Lula and anti-PT sentiment, bringing together on a luxurious stage figures who usually appear scattered.

The decline of the right wing, starting with the rise of Bolsonaro, allowed this grim landscape to take shape.

To complete the horror, we have as a new extra the last haunting presence of four years of fascism. But Father Kelmon is only apparently the only caricature to emerge on the eve of the election.

That's not true. All those who joined together to attack Lula are almost farcical figures, with the exception of Simone Tebet.

Felipe D'Avila can't even tie the tie of an Afif Domingos, his liberal ancestor from 1989. Ciro Gomes seems superior in his arrogance regarding statistics, but he has finally reached the same level as Soraya Thronicke, albeit without the senator's humor.

It's self-deception on the part of the right and far-right to think that the fake priest would stand alone as the grotesque element amidst what is considered normal. There is no longer normalcy in what was once the counterpoint to the left.

The debate exposed the precariousness of the whole thing. Would it be different if the team had included João Doria, Mandetta, Eduardo Leite, Rodrigo Pacheco, or Luciano Huck? It would be less bad, as long as it didn't include Sergio Moro.

This election highlights the degradation of the Brazilian right wing, after two decades of PSDB hegemony as the opposition to Lula's policies, a situation exacerbated by the rise of Bolsonaro. The debate only illuminated the scene.

Brazil was left facing the dregs of what is identified as fascism and what, alongside it, is still generically presented as liberalism. Everything is precarious, far below the superficial and common sense.

The overall performance is so poor that Lula, who is almost always brilliant, stumbles a bit in front of them. There's a lack of quality in the dissenting opinions and even in the unfair attacks.

But the debate also did the right a favor as a final warning before Bolsonaro's downfall.

This is the warning: get out of the trap that the 2016 coup created, with the help of Globo and the mainstream press, and get rid of the man, the military, and the militiamen.

Soraya and Simone even tried, now as direct opponents of the genocidal leader, to say that the time has come to abandon the project overseen by the generals.

With a first-round victory, Lula could help to bring forward the project to save what remains of the right wing.

The end of Bolsonaro will pave the way for renewals that Bolsonarism prevents from prospering. The debate was the ultimate spectacle.

The right cannot give up on its own survival and resign itself to handing over its fate to Arthur Lira and the center.

Lula, the PT (Workers' Party), the left, the future government, those who still define themselves as centrist, and the old conservatives frightened by what they saw yesterday depend, as much as institutions and democracy, on a sober and renewed right wing.

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