Luís Felipe Miguel: Wyllys' departure is a punch in the gut.
"It gives a very bad feeling to read the news that Jean Wyllys is leaving Brazil. It's another punch in the gut, another example of how we are regressing," says the political scientist; "Bolsonaro is contempt for democracy, truculence, unpreparedness, ignorance," he adds.
By Luís Felipe Miguel, in his Facebook
I'm naive. I tell myself that nothing will shock me anymore, that I've seen it all, but I'm shocked anyway.
It's a very bad feeling to read the news that Jean Wyllys is leaving Brazil. It's another punch in the gut, another sign of how we are regressing. Here and in many other spaces, I have both praised Wyllys' courage and firmness and criticized some of his positions, especially regarding the State of Israel. But I have no doubt that Congress and the country are poorer with his absence.
But what is most shocking, almost unbelievable, is seeing a man who holds the title of President of the Republic celebrating, on his Twitter account, the exile of a congressman who does not feel safe in his own country.
Bolsonaro represents contempt for democracy, truculence, incompetence, and ignorance. Worse: he is the militant pride in all of this. Congratulations to the almost 58 million accomplices, especially those who are currently celebrating alongside the "myth," happy to see the darkness advancing without even understanding that it too will engulf their melancholy little lives.