Right-wing rioters storm several government buildings in Brazil.

Joe Biden heads to the southern border and Kevin McCarthy finally becomes Speaker of the House.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben-Spiro Show.

Well, it was a busy weekend in the news.

The big story internationally is the storming of several government buildings, including the presidential

palace, as well as Congress and the Supreme Court over in Brazil. The media in the United

States are bizarrely blaming Donald Trump for that. I'm not sure exactly how Donald Trump has to do

with any of that. But the idea, apparently, is that when people storm government buildings

all over the world, that must be January 6th. There's a government buildings have not been

stormed at any time in Brazil's history in the recent past or, you know, throughout their entire history. In any case, the story from the Washington Post is that thousands of radical backers of far right ex-president, Yaira Bolsonaro. And that's the way that anyone who is of the right internationally is described. Right. Bolsonaro is far right. Victor Orban is far right. Benjamin Netanyahu is far right. There's never just a normal right-wing leader in a foreign country. Everybody is far right. In any case, Washington Post says thousands of radical backers of far-right ex-president Yair Bolson-Naro breached and vandalized Brazil's presidential office building, Congress, and Supreme Court on Sunday in scenes that hauntingly evoked the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.

Yes, indeed, it turns out that the only buildings that have ever been stormed in human history,

aside from like the Bastille, the rastag, or like pretty much all the government buildings

in unstable democracies. You know, aside from that, the only precedent for this is obviously January 6th.

The bizarre, myopic incompetence of our media is really something to behold the attack.

The most significant threat to democracy in Latin America's largest nation since a 1964

military coup came a week after the inauguration of President Luis Enacio Lula de Silva to succeed Bolsonaro.

It suggested a spreading plague of far-right disruptors in Western democracies as hardliners,

radicalized by incendiary political rhetoric, refused to accept election losses, cling to unfounded claims of fraud, and undermine the rule of law.

Again, this is part of a broader narrative that is now being driven by the media on one side and by election deniers on the other.

The democracy is in peril, that the Brazilian democracy will not outlast, people storming some

government buildings and a couple hundred of them being arrested. The idea all over the world is

anytime somebody doesn't wing on the left, then the right winger must be some sort of proto-fascist. And if supporters of that person go and do something illegal, it must be the fault of that person. If, however, people on the left go and do illegal things, well, that's either an exception or something that ought to be sheared on. And this is just true across the spectrum. While scenario occupied the National Congress building, many of them sitting or lying on the ground.

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