Those born provocateurs will never be president.

By Alex Solnik, from Journalists for Democracy - He threatened to blow up barracks and now he threatens to blow up the country: those born provocateurs will never be president.

We've reached the 88th day of Jair Bolsonaro's government. The most undeniable feeling is that the country has discovered it elected the wrong president. But there's no going back.

The surprise is belated. For 30 years, the character has been demonstrating exhaustively, in public, that he possesses no talent whatsoever for governing, which requires wisdom, balance, and moderation.

However, he never revealed that he possessed any of the three virtues.

The nouns that best describe what he has been are: subversive, provocative, and reactionary.

And these are not desirable characteristics in a president of the Republic. On the contrary, they are incompatible with the office.

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It's in the Aurélio dictionary: subversive is a characteristic of that which destroys; it's synonymous with perverse, destructive, demolishing, disturbing.

He was like that when he threatened to blow up barracks if salaries weren't increased. While he served in the Army. And he continued to be like that during the campaign, threatening to machine-gun and exile political opponents or destroy the press. Or when he posted pornographic videos on his Twitter page while already president.

The term reactionary refers to those who devalue the present in order to invoke the past. For the reactionary, the ideal lies in what was and will not be again, unless we return to old values. They oppose the present. For Marx and Engels, a "reactionary" is someone who "turns the wheel of history backward." This is the source of the obsession with the 64 dictatorship, in whose name the government was filled with military personnel of all kinds.

A provocateur is someone who seeks to disrupt meetings or demonstrations, especially those of a political nature, with absurd or offensive questions, or who commits acts of aggression, sabotage, or vandalism, aiming to cause social chaos that leads to repression and prevents the population from freely expressing themselves. This is what he did in his insults against Maria do Rosário, Lula, Dilma, gays, common sense, civility, and elegance, and in his praise for torturers and militiamen.

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A man who has acted subversively, reactionarily, and provocatively his entire life is not going to change as president. He will continue to be himself. And he is being himself.

It's astonishing that those who elected him and have already realized they chose the wrong person still believe he can change, hoping he'll reform the pension system and, who knows, maybe things will be different from then on.

What an illusion.

He threatened to blow up military barracks and now he threatens to blow up the country.

Those born provocateurs will never be president.