For months, it appeared that Brazilian democracy had dodged a bullet. For all of President Jair Bolsonaro’s warnings about a flawed system, and Donald Trump-like threats of unrest if he were to lose the Oct. 30 election, the protests he encouraged seemed to have dissipated. The winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was inaugurated on New Year’s Day. And while some of Bolsonaro’s hard-core supporters still demanded a reversal of the results, it seemed that the majority had considered the Trump playbook and tossed it aside.
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