
“Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
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The Virtue of Bolsonaro
I wanted readers to have a trajectory that went from fascism. You know, what happens to fascism after 1945? Where do all these tools of rule and impulses go? And so I trace it through right wing authoritarianism. That was the narrative arc of the book. Some of the links with Putin, to Burlesconi and others that I think have not been really intuitive. We can all list four or five of the current Strongman, but not how they have interacted with each other. So if you want to understand Bolsonaro, we need to go back to the age of military coups and Brazil had a military dictatorship. There's a whole kind of history of right-wing authoritarian
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