Brazil's Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global.

07 October 2018, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: 07 October 2018, Brazil, Sao Paulo: Jair Bolsonaro (L), ultra-right candidate for the post of Brazilian president, laughs after casting his vote at a polling station in the city school Rosa da Fonseca, in Vila Militar, west of the city. In the background is his son Flavio Bolsonaro. In the midst of a severe crisis, the presidential election has begun in Brazil. Photo by: Fabio Teixeira/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Brazil’s Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global.

The standard establishment reaction in the face of rising demagogues is to denounce and malign those who support them. That only serves further to exacerbate the dynamic.