Brazil’s Disastrous 2018 Presidential Race Teaches Key Lesson For All: Demagogues Thrive Only When Establishments Fail

Summary: Brazil’s media, legal, judicial and corporate factions have spent the last three yearsrighteously insisting that systemic political corruption is the nation’s gravest problem. They were soterribly upsetabout corruption that, in 2016, they united, with almost no dissent permitted, in support of the most drastic step a democracy can take: removal of the elected President, Dilma Rousseff, before her term expired.