I'm having a bit of a hard time slotting traditional national socialist ideology (lebensraum, blood and soil, racial purity) into a South American context, despite the obvious racial tension. Antisemitism in Brazil is among the lowest in the world despite having one of the largest jewish communities in the world. Furthermore, Bolsonaro will have to perform some extraordinary mental gymnastics to get Hitler's concept of an aryan race to fit into Brazilian demographics (Mussolini famously had to bicker with Hitler over this, resulting in the inane mediterraneism vs. nordicism debate).
If anything, I'd be more worried that Bolsonaro will essentially be picking up the reactionary thread where Augusto Pinochet left off in Chile. He'll want to harness the military to kill off lefty opposition, fortify the class strata by eliminating social programs and unions and ramp up state violence and vigilantism in the slums a la Rodrigo Duterte. The question then becomes whether this will be enough to tip the scale over to full blown civil war, which he can then capitalise on to reintroduce the military junta.
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