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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. A far-right lunatic clown of a president threatening violence

against political enemies, spewing racist and sexist commentary that conservatives once had

the manners to camouflage within UNDO and embracing brutal law and order repression while denying

global warming and threatening to declare election results invalid should they declare him the loser.

I'm talking about far-right populist Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who, after his shocking

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