Brazil has a new myth: it's Ciro Gomes.

The violence, aggression, and criminal attacks by Ciro Gomes's militias against publications that denounce his frothy and brutal verbal abuse serve as a warning sign for Brazilian democracy.

This new system of organized hate is growing at an astonishing rate and is beginning to challenge the structure of Bolsonaro's hate cabinet – which is languishing due to costs and the ideological exhaustion of the government.

Bolsonaro's "hate cabinet" is being dismantled, but Ciro Gomes's "hate cabinet" is being installed.

Something would have to be put in its place, after all, to perpetuate the criminalization of the PT.

Ciro Gomes' supporters learned their lesson well. They didn't mess around. The day after Bolsonaro, who would have thought, held a surprise for us: we will have a professionally organized structure of lies to exalt Ciro Gomes and oppress the PT for years to come.

Ciro was clever. He realized that the Brazilian justice system did nothing to dismantle Bolsonaro's structure of disorienting communication – built under the influence of Steve Bannon – and turned a blind eye to the new political-digital system that arose in his orbit.

Is he wrong? I don't know. Since there's no minimally consistent criminal classification for these practices, the territory is open to new experiments [contains irony].

Ciro Gomes' obsession with becoming president of the Republic is such that it's clear he would spare no effort to achieve it. Someone who has the audacity to bluff daily and publicly about Lula and the PT, fueled by the unhealthy anti-PT sentiment of the Brazilian elites, wouldn't hesitate to create any other kind of underhanded, war-like communication mechanisms.

At this point in the story, it's almost part of the game.

There are no scruples in this field – except for the romantic left that still believes in public debate. What the PT refused to do – to set up a digital structure to at least defend itself – the digital underworld orbiting Ciro Gomes didn't hesitate to materialize.

Provided he perpetuates hate attacks against Lula and the PT, Ciro will have the approval of all traditional journalism – as he has been doing.

And listen up: Ciro is going to grow, and he's going to grow a lot. In the same proportion that Bolsonaro sinks, Ciro will emerge – because he will inherit his predecessor's "operation" in the mission to criminalize the PT (Workers' Party).

Bolsonaro supporters are starting to migrate to Ciro Gomes at a samba pace.

It was a very well-thought-out calculation by Ciro, I admit, and I retract that statement – ​​Carlos Bolsonaro would certainly have given him a lot of praise. Now, he is reaping the rewards.

To be fair, Bolsonaro's hate cabinet doesn't even attack the PT anymore. That function has already been transferred to the new army of instigators of hatred, fear, and lynching, cleverly separated from any legal ties to their new idol, future president, and entity immune to criticism.

The stimulus-response protocol in this new hate cabinet is, strictly speaking, the same as Bolsonaro's. They repeat mantras about the PT (Workers' Party), play the victim, and produce an immense amount of memes and montages that incite hatred, all of them false and in an accusatory-mocking tone.

They are the new generation of "shut-down" activists, a step below in terms of "dirty tricks" compared to the already obsolete Bolsonaro militiamen.

Of course: with many bots and 'fake' profiles to populate Twitter and Facebook.

Brazil is specializing in war-like communication protocols in politics. Bolsonaro opened the floodgates of horror and set a precedent.

The saying holds true: nothing is so bad that it can't get worse.

In other news: just when we were almost rid of Bolsonaro and his hate cabinet, along comes a new cabinet that is even more hateful – because it is visceral, petty, and forged in the ruins of the country.

Now, however, the game is different.

Ciro Gomes comes in full force, like a runaway train, mumbling insults, narrowing his eyes, and letting saliva drip from the corner of his jaw.

His visceral hatred for the PT (Workers' Party) and Lula has no parallel in political literature. He has already occupied the space of Carluxo's militias and recruited the legion of orphans that Bolsonarism is leaving in its bloody wake.

It won't be easy to stop Ciro Gomes.

It remains to be seen who Ciro's 'Carlos Bolsonaro' is. The structure is gigantic – and the work is very 'well done': bloggers, influencers, businessmen, intellectual gurus, and multiple favors in traditional media outlets that need venal anti-PT sentiment to give substance to their war-mongering editorials.

Observing the mafia-like maneuvering surrounding Ciro is almost curious: judging by the embarrassing—and so sycophantic—preface that Roberto Mangabeira Unger managed to sign, presenting the arrogant book project of the "new myth," it's certain that he embodies the new Olavo de Carvalho.

He already lives in the USA - and has a captivating accent.

I know it's difficult to accept criticism of a Brazilian "Harvard professor," and I know that the subservience of the "well-behaved left" will be scandalized. All the better. To this fear of dotting the i's and crossing the t's, by the way, I respond with simple delicacy: I will treat the putrid flies that orbit the Ciro camp exactly as Ciro treats Lula and the PT: without remorse or pity—and with sublime cruelty.

Ciro has the right to want to be president. Ciro has the right to present an alternative vision for the country. Ciro has the right to compete for political space with Lula and the PT.

Ciro simply shouldn't get caught up in the anything-goes digital spiral like Bolsonaro did.

We realize that, in these dizzying processes fueled by hatred, life is short - and the country remains held hostage by the egocentric individualism of sore losers.