The New York Times, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Washington Post, Rolling Stone all have articles about the Steve Bannon/Jair Bolsonaro’s remake of J-6.
But I think The Palm Beach Post has the best take on the Bolsonaro, Trump, Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows & Q remake of the plot to overthrow democracy January 6,2001.
The DOJ NEEDS TO ARREST DONALD TRUMP, MARK MEADOWS & OTHERS AND BRING THE TRAITOROUS SEDITIONISTS TO A HALT
SEE:
Sunday, January 8, 2023
CNN anchor warns Brazil riot is 'real world impact' of Jan 6:
BOLSONARO IS NOW A CRIMINAL
"We need to set a quota on deposed wannabe dictators relocating in Florida.
If not, we could get a reputation here of being the Elba of the Americas…
A state full of refugees ... but not all should be welcome
So, it would seem to be hypocritical of us to withdraw the welcome mat to other people in need.
But I propose we make an exception for deposed dictators who see Florida as a sanctuary from their failed criminal plots to thwart democracy and establish themselves as kings in perpetuity.
We took in one of these dead-enders over the weekend. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro slipped out of Brazil and moved into a house in a gated community in Orlando — where he was seen taking a neighborhood stroll.
Bolsonaro was supposed to be in Brazil, handing over the presidential sash to the man who beat him in the recent presidential election, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
But, instead, Bolsonaro hightailed it to Florida after saying, “We will not throw in the towel. We may have lost the battle but not the war….
Donald Trump, Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro read from the same script
Where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah. From our own deposed would-be dictator, Donald Trump, who also sought refuge in Florida after his plans to subvert presidential election results flamed out in a violent failed coup at the U.S. Capitol. He has since written that the U.S. Constitution ought to be set aside to reinstate him at the White House.
Bolsonaro, who ran by saying he wanted to "make Brazil great again," refused to accept defeat at the polls in his recent re-election bid. He claimed there was massive fraud in the Brazilian election, which was suppressed by “the fake news” media.
Apparently, wannabe despots just borrow each other’s material….
And we certainly can’t depend on Trump’s mini-me, Gov. Ron DeSantis, to do anything about the dictator immigration problem going on in Florida. In fact, Bolsonaro’s homophobia, immigrant scapegoating, and anti-vaccination posturing puts the Brazilian right in line with DeSantis’ vision of a “free” Florida….
My big concern, though, is that Bolsonaro’s move to Florida is going to open the door for Russian President Vladimir Putin, another despot who may soon be looking for a happy landing somewhere out of the way.
Florida’s got to be looking good for Putin. Especially now that Bolsonaro has paved the way.”
MORE AT:
The Palm Beach Post
Florida's dictator immigration problem: Bolsonaro and Trump | Frank Cerabino
FROM Lucid
“New York Young Republicans Club's (NYYRC) annual gala are no exception. Many extremists who prepared and supported the coup attempt former president Donald Trump instigated on Jan. 6 to remain in office illegally were present. They are mentoring a new generation of Republican operatives who welcome the GOP's transformation into a Fascist party, are immersed in far-right international networks, and believe, in the words of their leader Gavin Wax, that a "total war" on our democracy is long overdue…
Convicted criminal Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani (the 2021 Dulles award recipient), both core conspirators of the Jan. 6 coup attempt, also attended, as did representatives of foreign far-right parties like Alternative for Germany and the Austrian Freedom Party.
And there was the new star of the radical right, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who on Jan. 7 had characterized the assault on the Capitol as "our 1776 moment." She maintains she had no direct role in the coup. "I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would have won," said Greene in her remarks to the NYYRC crowd. "Not to mention, it would've been armed."
Here Greene repeated the false Republican claim that no arms were used on Jan. 6, while also acknowledging that any future such operation would have to be dramatically scaled up to be successful. "That's what we fucking need to have, 30,000 guns up here," one insurgent had stated that day, frustrated at the Capitol Police's ability to delay his entry into the Capitol. "Next trip," someone answered him.
The GOP found out on Jan. 6 what generations of authoritarians already knew: coups are hard to pull off. Of 471 coup attempts staged around the world from 1950 to 2000, half were defeated due to operational failures or lack of unity among participants.
Successful coups require the backing of powerful individuals and institutions, whether the military, security forces, or political parties. Peruvian head of state Pedro Castillo's recent "self-coup" to avoid impeachment ended quickly with his imprisonment, for example, because the military, the police and other authorities declined to support his power grab. As the Venezuelan publication Arepita quipped, Castillo "had breakfast as a president, lunch as a dictator, dinner as a detainee.”
Coups also travel internationally. Jan. 6 has been studied by authoritarians abroad who see it as a blueprint for armed actions. Bannon, an advisor to Jair Bolsonaro, hoped that Brazil (where a 1964 coup led to two decades of military dictatorship) would experience its own Jan. 6 after Bolsonaro's loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Brazilian elites and institutions mobilized to certify Lula’s victory promptly, short-circuiting any such attempt, but hard-core Bolsonaro supporters persist, encouraged by GOP activists such as Matthew Tyrmand (another attendee of the NYYRC gala).
The recent coup attempt in Germany, where domestic terrorists wanted to storm the Reichstag to liberate Germany from the "deep state" and replace it with a "Fourth Reich," is another example of the momentum Jan. 6 has given to the global far right. Germany has its own neo-Nazi and extremist traditions, of course, and this group is part of a home-grown sovereign citizen (Reichsbürger) movement responsible for over 180 acts of violence in 2021 alone.
Yet the group has also adopted American QAnon thought as a basis for action. QAnon, like anti-science aggression, took hold in Germany during the pandemic, and the conspiracy theory offers Germans a way to express antisemitic and other banned hate speech. As the German intelligence official Stephan Kramer remarks, "Qanon doesn't openly fly the colors of fascism; it sells it as a secret code."
This matters because the German coup plotters cannot be dismissed as fringe extremists: they include a sitting judge, an aristocrat, and members of the police and the military. "Right-wing extremists are present in all areas and parts of German society," warns Pia Lamberty, a German psychologist and CEO of a nonprofit that monitors extremism.
The same can be said about far-right extremists in America. The GOP's characterization of the Jan. 6 coup attempt as "legitimate political discourse" means that one party in a bipartisan system accepts violence as a means of achieving political goals. As Robert A. Pape, author of numerous studies on participants in the Jan. 6 coup attempt, puts it, "the insurrectionist movement is mainstream, not simply confined to the political fringe.”
MORE AT:
Coups Make a Comeback as GOP Elites Declare "Total War" on US Democracy
Extremists Gather on Park Avenue to Celebrate Authoritarian Actions Past and Present
Ruth Ben-Ghiat Dec 14, 2022
The New York Times establishes the links between J6 and attack on Brazil’s seat of government in a very good photojournalistic article:
The New York Times
Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing former president of Brazil, had for months sought to undermine the results of an election that he lost, in much the same manner that Donald J. Trump did after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Published Jan. 8, 2023 Updated Jan. 9, 2023, 7:21 a.m. ET
Rolling Stone
Brazil Is Having Its Own Jan. 6 Right Now
Peter Wade January 8, 2023
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Washington Post
Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil
Researchers detected a surge in aggressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting
Updated January 9, 2023 at 9:50 a.m. EST
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