RIO DE JANEIRO ¨C Down in the polls, the far-right president warned of voter fraud, despite no evidence. After losing, he claimed the vote was rigged. Thousands of his supporters ¡ª draped in the national flag and misled by conspiracy theories ¡ª then stormed Congress in a bid to overturn the results.
That scenario describes the latest elections in the Western Hemisphere¡¯s largest democracies: the United States and Brazil.
But although the behavior of the two former presidents ¡ª Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro ¡ª was remarkably similar, the political aftermath has been drastically different.
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