Trump pushes Brazilian Congress toward democratic collapse

The insecurity of Brazilian legislative leaders regarding the Amnesty bill, advocated by President Donald Trump to try and imperially enable the candidacy of former President Jair Bolsonaro in 2026, demonstrates the moral collapse of the national elite, which lacks a project to govern Brazil in a sovereign manner; it reveals, above all, a lack of personality to politically lead society, unsure whether to position itself independently or succumb entirely to the influence of the United States on the country's destiny; in the political field, Congress is incompatible with democracy because it aligns itself with unconstitutional semi-presidentialism, which makes the constitutional presidentialism democratically conducted by President Lula unviable; semi-presidentialism or parliamentarism has always, in Brazilian history, been identified with a political coup by the elites, allied with the military and Washington; in the economic field, this anti-democratic semi-presidential-parliamentarism, yesterday and today, endorses the neoliberal model, which tyrannizes the population with anti-developmentalist economic policies. Currently, it is an undeniable ally of the speculative financial market, whose insanity is expressed in the defense of interest rates that grow uncontrollably, detached from GDP growth; while the Selic rate is at a high of 15% – winning the world championship of legalism –, GDP crawls at the level of 2,9%, totally incompatible with the needs of a continental country where practically everything remains to be done, as a sovereign developmental task; it is the model that promotes social inequality.

PATRON OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Dominated by the right and far-right after the anti-democratic coup of 2016, the legislature, prisoner of the neoliberal dictates of Faria Lima (the financial district of São Paulo), hinders sustainable economic development; currently, the great unknown that marks the legislature is how it will behave politically in the face of Donald Trump, who promises retaliatory measures against the Lula government next week, punishing it for defending democracy against the coup proposal that the Supreme Court defeated last week, sentencing Bolsonaro to 27 years and 3 months in prison; Lula is expected to speak against this Trumpist imperialist crusade on the UN stage, creating an international political event; in this scenario, the silence of Congress, dominated by the fascist right and far-right, in the face of the threats of the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who promises to bring Latin America to its knees for Trump to mount and spur on like an imperialist cowboy, is scandalous. The political inclination of the anti-nationalist elite, essentially aligned with American capital since forever, now, in its financialized phase, advocates financial slavery in the form of exorbitant interest rates.

LULA VS TRUMP + CONGRESS

The fundamental goal of the anti-national elite is clear: to defeat at any cost the Lula-era developmentalist proposal, which aims to combat inequality by taxing the wealthiest through tax reform in order to distribute to the poorest; in this scenario, the public debt, under the continued impact of imperialist interest rates, governs the government; it drives anti-national interests in the process of deepening social inequality; Congress, under the control of semi-presidentialism, led by the fascist far-right and the lost right, reacts, contrary to the democratic forces, which are expressed in the Supreme Court, committed to putting the coup plotters in jail; hesitant in the face of Trump's pressure in favor of amnesty, both the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), and the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (UB-AP), are reluctant to make the decision that would give Congress its sovereign dimension: to impeach Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), who is plotting with the White House, the great national betrayal; The hesitation of the leaders of the Brazilian legislature, worthy of a banana republic, in strongly condemning the amnesty for Bolsonaro as a clear expression of a coup d'état, condemns Congress to the democratic precipice; it splits the right and the far right and visibly unites the center-right and the left for the 2026 presidential race; it therefore favors the expectation of a third term for President Lula, as predicted by opinion polls.