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How Brazil’s right wing copied Trump’s playbook, leading to an insurrection

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  • Thousands violently stormed Brazil’s Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court.
  • Jair Bolsonaro supporters refuse to accept his loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the  presidential election.
  • Lula blamed Bolsonaro for instigating the riots and called the protesters fascists.

Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed several federal government buildings in Brasilia, in a scene reminiscent of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

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