BRAZIL: A JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE EX SERGIO MORO
Sergio Moro
left the government shooting not for republican reasons, but because he was
betrayed. He accepted to be Bolsonaro's minister because he saw himself as
bigger than the president - and in fact he was, in popularity and acceptance
among the middle class, who kept himself minimally away from psychopathy. Moro,
with the idea of a vacancy in the STF and the guarantee of independence in
the ministry, took the whole group from Curitiba.
It was short-lived and
collected defeats. His main project, the dangerous 'anti-crime package', was
severed, with the approval of Bolsonaro, who sanctioned the post of judge of
guarantees - under public protests by Moro - and took Coaf, where Moro and his
attorneys used to have a friend for illegal spying on other people's accounts.
He wanted his government, parallel; Bolsonaro paid with what is expected:
treason.
In testimony to the
Federal Police, the ex-hero spent eight hours in the building and ordered
pizza. It generated expectation of a winning sentence, said that a video would
confirm everything. The press cooked expectations. And the video doesn't
confirm much. In fact, the sequence of phrases spoken by Bolosnaro during the
meeting takes him off the ropes for the time being. We know that Jair did want
to control the PF in Rio to protect his son Flávio, but that is not at all
given in the video shocked by Celso de Mello until yesterday.
Moro's promises were
further rekindled by the press-friendly portion. Moro speaks, publish yourself.
It’s like that, you know. But the mountain gave birth to a rat. In fact, while publicly slapping his former minister, Bolsonaro uses the
episode to reenergize the base. Aside from the usual scandalous phrases - who
cares if he swears? - the video is gold to voters who have not yet abandoned
the gang. It has demagogic defense of the people, it has bad words (of course),
it has arms, it attacks the press and mayors and governors, it has a lie about
freedom of expression.
There is a lot more. It is the complete plot of the extremist plan to
destroy what remains of the country. We shout in the living room, send
indignant audios to our friends, but we lose track of how a piece of positive
propaganda is actually created within the radicalism of the flat earth. They
have already made carnivals in much more adverse conditions. The video is
already being used on the networks, with obvious success.
Or: what do you think of
phrases like that?
“And what made me, at that
moment, get on board was the fight for… for freedom. I don't want to be a slave
in this country. And end this crap that is Brasilia. This is a cancer of
corruption, of privilege. ”
- It was said by Abraham
Weintraub.
How about this one?
“They are people here in Brasília, of the three branches, who do not
know what a people is.
I talk to some, I don't know what beans and rice are, I don't know what
a supermarket is.
You forgot. ”
- It was said by Jair Bolsonaro.
And this one?
“Our rubber tappers are in greater numbers than we imagine in Brazil.
So, everything we
went to build, we will have to see, Minister, the issue of values too.
The question, our
quilombos are growing and the ... and the boys are being born in the
quilombos and their
values are there. So, everything will have to see the issue of values.
”
- It was said by Damares Alves.
The clips are already being spread over the internet, showing that even
behind closed doors “the government is with the people”. It's fake, but it
works. Sergio Moro did a favor to bolsonarismo. Anyone who thinks the ex-judge is a strategist genius needs to rethink
everything.
I do not write this to reduce the importance of what was watched by
Brazil late yesterday afternoon. Institutionally, this video would overthrow
any president. Dilma fell for less, Collor fell for less. Bolsonaro even
confessed to a kind of parallel investigation apparatus. Is a gang bugging
people illegally? This is serious.
He also said that he wants to arm the civilian population for a war
against other powers. It is delinquency, and it is very serious. But everything
depends on the Brazilian institutions, which are dead with
no date to resurrect.
We would not need this video to remove the government. There are plenty
of reasons without needing this squalid and overestimated denunciation of the resentful and
waning Moro. The championship goes on, and the video can, of course, be an
important piece in the dismantling of that horror - a horror that Moro was part
of while it suited him, remember.
But yesterday's game was 7x1 for Jair. The images now spread across the
zap are gasoline for Bolsonarism. Not even when I could help lava-jetting, was
it useful for anything.
