Trump Has Become a Global Threat to Democracies

If you read the news about what transpired in Brazil the last 72 hours, you would know that the alt-right in the country were emulating ours here in America. The storming of their Congress, their supreme court, and the Planalto presidential palace a week after their candidate Jair Bolsonaro lost the elections is just about a mirror act of our January 6. This latest assault on the rule of law in Brazil is testimony to the fact that Trump has become a global threat to democracies across the world. His actions on U.S. soil is now a template for others to mimic to run over their own governments.

But unlike the U.S., the Brazilian government reacted swiftly to arrest those involved instead of their police forces sending them home first. At least four hundreds have been arrested and it is likely they will spend countless years behind bars. No offers of clemency and no mercy. And no prosecutorial deals to testify against others after the fact.

Unlike the U.S. as well, Jair Bolsonaro immediately condemned the actions of his supporters. Trump, for 187 minutes, waited for his to keep him seated in the White House.

Like the United States, the purpose of the Brazilian own January 6 was to unseat a lawfully elected president.

BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT REACTION

In the meantime, the Brazilian supreme court ordered the military to dismantle the pro-Bolsonaro camps his supporters erected after losing the elections. The order was harsh enough to hold accountable individuals in the military and the police should they neglect to fulfill their duties in accordance with the supreme court demands.

Another step the supreme court took to immediately restore order was to suspend the man whose responsibility was the security of the government buildings the Bolsonaro supporters stormed. Here at home, we still have to hold accountable those responsible for ignoring all the signs of the January 6 happening.

The riots in Brazil are over. President Lula da Silva visited the buildings ransacked to assure the public that everything is under control. Like the United States, the purpose of the Brazilian own January 6 was to unseat a lawfully elected president with one difference that President da Silva was already in office.

Below is an NBC video showing Brazilian’s own fanatic right storming the government buildings.

Honestly, the man should have never been appointed attorney-general in the first place. Like Biden, his indecisiveness is becoming legendary.

MERRICK GARLAND’S “WHERE IS WALDO” SHOW

It is hard not to assume that because of our Department of Justice slow moving machine to hold the heads of the January 6 insurrection accountable, it is having a negative impact on the rest of the world. Is it possible that other would-be insurrectionists sense that if the law in the U.S. could not reach Trump and his acolytes, the same might happen in their country? Even though the laws are greatly different?

Is it possible that their Constitutions boast insurrection clauses the same as ours but far-right operators in other countries sense that respecting the Constitution is not a serious matter if the U.S. does not respect theirs?

So far, that is not the impression we are getting from Brazil, but one cannot wonder how the rest of the world looking to America reacts to our apathetic display of enforcing our laws in this country. Thanks to the slow moving Merrick Garland who seems to be operating in an echo chamber unaware of the impact his indecisiveness is having on the other democracies.

One cannot but wonder how Merrick Garland is viewing Brazil within the context of his disappearing act.

The world is happy to see Brazil’s democracy survive another fanatical assault. Will Brazil prompt Garland to get out of his cocoon? We doubt it. Trump has become a global threat to democracies and Merrick Garland remains stuck in his slow and indecisive ways.

Honestly, the man should have never been appointed attorney-general in the first place. Like Biden, his indecisiveness is becoming legendary.

Trump Has Become a Global Threat to Democracies