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Interregnum - Lula's knife-edge victory

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Is It a Coup?

I don't expect Lula's government to be revolutionary, but I hope it will provide an ounce of hope. Bolsonaro told them that in a clean election, he would win 60% of the vote. The question for me was always, what are Bolsonaro's supporters going to do? Because these people are mad and they were primed for the election being stolen. There's also a sense in which what's happening here is a kind of collective decibilisation - licensed madness as J. G. Ballard puts it.

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