Commentary
Last night, I rang up a few politically savvy friends in Brazil to ask their impressions of what is happening in Brazil. My concern is that the English-language renderings of events there were being too closely read through the U.S. experience and thus distorting the main narrative.
What I found was the opposite. If anything, my Brazilian friends gave me a rendering that more closely tracks the U.S. experience with the same, except (as usual) with a bit more drama. At some point, I just had to laugh at how much politics in Brazil today reads like a more exciting version of the U.S. case….