Want to get noticed? Be a right-wing writer.
Say that the Workers' Party decade was the decade of rhetoric, that opinion polls are worthless, and that Lula is the hidden defendant in the Mensalão scandal.
A philosopher with a French name. Sounds like a good omen. And a historian with the name of a Mexican revolutionary. Maybe so.
What unites the two? The almost unhealthy need to be seen.
Imagine that the academic consensus is that the 1980s were a lost decade from an economic point of view. What do you do? You create a catchy title for your book claiming that the lost decade was the last one, not the one decades ago. It grabs attention, doesn't it? But wouldn't that be more marketing than academic study? Maybe. For that, it's best to read the book.
Here comes a succession of adjectives and few nouns. He claims that there has never been as much corruption as during the PT decade (he calls it that: the PT decade!). Where did he get the basis for this comparison?
He claims that the Workers' Party decade was the decade of rhetoric. What does he mean by that?
He claims that opinion polls are useless (literally).
To make matters worse, he calls Lula the hidden defendant in the Mensalão scandal. That's going too far. He may be many things, but he's not considered an academic or an intellectual. He's a militant. Like the Mexican revolutionary.
This is the benchmark for evaluating this "intellectual production" of the "new" Brazilian right.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.