Haddad: Bolsonaro hides the dead and normalizes barbarity.
The former mayor also points out that fascism "is a permanent and aimless agitation" and that the coup is an ongoing process.
247 - Presidential candidate Fernando Haddad, in his column this Saturday in Folha de S. Paulo, points out the nature of Jair Bolsonaro's neo-fascist project and its authoritarian bias. "Hiding the dead is something a dictatorship does. And what is happening in our country, the erosion of democracy 'from within,' is something quite different from a classic coup. One of the flaws in the slogan 'there will be no coup' was conveying the underlying idea that there was a plan to be executed on a specific date, when, in fact, we were facing a 'process,' which, incidentally, is underway. There is no single way to suppress democracy. The classic coup is just one form. The fascist method is something very different and, in certain circumstances, more effective," Haddad describes.
"The great merit of modern democracy is having filters that obstruct the emergence of the rotten side of a society that has always flirted with death. In this flirtation lies the everyday normalization of barbarity. The only legacy of fascism is a trail of destruction: it cannot be accused of inertia; it is a permanent and aimless agitation," the former mayor further points out.