Brazil's Democracy Under Siege

On Sunday, thousands of supporters of Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro attacked the nation’s highest seats of power in the capital Brasília, just a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated on Jan. 1. They were protesting what they falsely claim was a stolen election. Pro-Bolsonaro protesters stormed Brazil’s Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in striking similarities to the U.S.'s Jan 6. Insurrection.

We speak to Mac Margolis, contributing columnist focusing on Brazilian and Latin American politics for The Washington Post Global Opinions, and author of Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier, and Yascha Mounk, professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, and author of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure.

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On Sunday, thousands of supporters of Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro attacked the nation’s highest seats of power in the capital Brasília, just a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated on Jan. 1. They were protesting what they falsely claim was a stolen election. Pro-Bolsonaro protesters stormed Brazil’s Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in striking similarities to the U.S.'s Jan 6. Insurrection.

We speak to Mac Margolis, contributing columnist focusing on Brazilian and Latin American politics for The Washington Post Global Opinions, and author of Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier, and Yascha Mounk, professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, and author of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure.