His core constituency of cultural conservatives immediately responded, praising him for exposing social rot
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony in celebration of 211th anniversary of Brazilian Marine Corps in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 7, 2019.The annual celebration of Carnaval was drawing to a close in Brazil on Tuesday night – people were nursing hangovers – when Jair Bolsonaro jolted many into sobriety, with a tweet. The President told his 3.
Uproar ensued, with many Brazilians expressing outrage that the conservative President was misrepresenting a beloved cultural institution, plus requiring them to explain obscure sexual practices to their grandparents while watching the evening news. Indeed the President himself felt compelled to ask in a subsequent tweet, “What is a golden shower?” Mr. Bolsonaro’s core constituency of cultural conservatives immediately responded, praising him for exposing social rot.
The other key issue that drew people to support Mr. Bolsonaro was persistently high unemployment. He promised sweeping privatizations and reforms, starting with an overhaul of Brazil’s generous pension system, which the private sector has complained for years is stifling growth. But the latest data show that unemployment is rising, not falling; economic growth projections for the year have been slashed on the basis of weak consumer confidence numbers.
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