{"id":1087,"date":"2026-10-30T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:26:15","slug":"lefties-cheers-for-lulas-brazil-victory-should-leave-us-citizens-very-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Lefties\u2019 cheers for Lula’s Brazil victory should leave US citizens very worried"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The left\u2019s celebration of Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio \u201cLula\u201d da Silva\u2019s reelection victory is more reason to worry about Democrats sweeping next week\u2019s US midterms.<\/p>\n

Literally minutes <\/em>after Lula was declared the winner<\/a>, partisan Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the loser, conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, to surrender his passport and remain in the country, pending an investigation.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro was lucky to escape to the United States<\/a>, which granted him a visa.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s possible the senator (not yet charged with anything) is guilty of some crimes.<\/p>\n

But the prepared-in-advance order by a notoriously pro-Lula judge (and himself immersed in a corruption scandal), reportedly without even consulting Brazil\u2019s prosecutor general, is hardly a sign of a healthy democracy.<\/p>\n

Add to that Lula\u2019s own past convictions for corruption charges, later tossed on technicalities.<\/p>\n

And the fact that the election results themselves are suspect.<\/p>\n

Lefty journalist Glenn Greenwald, reporting from Brazil<\/a>, notes that Bolsonaro isn\u2019t the only one to have gotten out of Dodge \u201cto escape the tyrannical persecution of Alexandre de Moraes and the pro-Lula wing of the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenwald cites \u201cdozens of Brazilian exiles who have done the same: dissident journalists, activists, bloggers, and politicians who all fled to avoid certain prison for political opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

One wag claimed that, when it comes to lawfare, Lula is \u201c[Sen.] Elissa Slotkin cubed.\u201d<\/p>\n

And America\u2019s socialist left cheered his win with gusto.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCongratulations to Lula on his extraordinary reelection victory,\u201d gushed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people united will never be defeated! Congratulations, President Lula,\u201d cheered Mayor Zohran Mamdani on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet Lula\u2019s continued rule looks like bad news for Brazil: The economy has flagged on his watch, with inflation outpacing wage increases and GDP growth sluggish, and the nation\u2019s stock market plunged<\/a> in the wake of his surprise victory.<\/p>\n

Plus, of course, the whole crush-your-political-opposition-via-the-courts thing.<\/p>\n

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Then again, that\u2019s pretty much what Democrats here vow to do if they gain power on Tuesday \u2014 and even more so if they take the White House in 2028.<\/p>\n

A Dem House and\/or Senate is guaranteed to launch probes of President Donald Trump and his team \u2014 with prosecutions of even the lowliest in the offing if Slotkin has her way<\/a>. <\/p>\n

No, America is not (yet) Brazil, but the growing power within the Democratic Party of progressives who\u2019ve for decades cheering a long string of anti-democratic Latin leftists suggests it can happen here.<\/p>\n

Add in Dems\u2019 obsessive lawfare against Trump & Co. \u2014 with not a hint of regret even now \u2014 and everyone who threatens to get in the hard left\u2019s way has serious reason to fear. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See more of our coverage in your search results. The left\u2019s celebration of Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio \u201cLula\u201d da Silva\u2019s reelection victory is more reason to worry about Democrats sweeping next week\u2019s US midterms. Literally minutes after Lula was declared the winner, partisan Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the loser, conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}