Welcome listener to Premium Chapter 197 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Bolsonaroista

Insurrection episode, as always we are your host Jake Rogatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis

Viu. On January 8th, in the city of Brasília, supporters of Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro

stormed multiple government buildings and basically trashed the places. The Bolsonaroista

movement, as it's known, had grown convinced that Bolsonaro's 2022 presidential election

loss was fraudulent. Luis Sinas-Helula de Silva, the winner of the election, had long

been the ire of a growing coalition of far-right interests. Now obviously the history of the

biggest country in South America is a complex one that includes far-right coups and military

dictatorships, so the context is a little bit different than we might use to examine something

like January 6th in the United States. But Brazil also has an ascendant and extremely

online new right, festering in its vast ecosystem of social media influencers who have a history

of leveraging their platforms to become politicians. To dig into all of this we'll be speaking

to Ben Fogel, a contributing editor for Jacobin who is currently working on a PhD in Brazilian

anti-corruption politics at NYU. He's going to fill us in on Bolsonaroismo as a movement,

provide historical context for the election, and help us explore what happened on January

8th in the capital. We'll also be touching on conspiracy theories spawned by the Bolsonaroista

movement, much like the Maga movement spawned stuff like Pizegate and QAnon. But before

we dive into that interview, Travis has prepared a short segment about how the American

right is reacting to January 8th. So as the attacks unfolded on January 8th, American

Fireright figures, they went to write to work, jump again to defend, justify downplaying

the violence, and these sorts of reactions were documented by media matters and others.

There have been long been close ties between Brazilian right and American far-right. With

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