Bolsonaro stigmatizes segments and strengthens opposition.

247 - Jair Bolsonaro's encouragement of the stigmatization of teachers and artists is pushing these segments into the opposition and, consequently, into the left and the PT (Workers' Party), says journalist Vera Magalhães of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. According to her, "the Bolsonaro's highly ideologized discourse has led to categories such as teachers, environmentalists, union members, activists from non-governmental organizations, and artists being automatically associated with the PT (Workers' Party), thus strengthening the opposition against the government's wishes. 

The report it also highlights that "the The government's liberal agenda has led to changes such as those concerning the Continuous Benefit Payment and rural retirement in the pension reform, the reduction of transfers to the most popular income brackets of the Minha Casa Minha Vida program, and the suspension of agrarian reform.  There are already sectors of the government concerned about this unbalanced social scale. The president himself has shown signs that he may not support the "targeting" of the BPC program advocated by the economic team, precisely because of the program's impact on the poorest, especially in the Northeastern states.

And he adds: "During the election campaign, Bolsonaro had shifted his historical discourse against Bolsa Família (always associated by him with vote-buying by the PT) by saying that he would maintain and expand the program, even instituting a 13th payment for beneficiaries. He seemed to understand that, to broaden his social base, he would need to speak to the most needy at the bottom of the social pyramid. The first few months did not bring a set of initiatives aimed at this public, and the opposition, which showed in the election that it does not have a project that speaks to society as a whole, perceives the gap and begins to reorganize itself to act on it."