I would say yes, more so in some ways. On the covid issue, they really didn’t have the benefit of the dialog that happened in boards like these about the vaccine. It seems like they don’t have substantial alternative media Outlets like we do. They actually watch cnn. I dropped into São Paulo in January. and my friend and I were the only people on the streets without masks. I got kicked out of so many grocery stores. I was thinking mostly like people on this board at the time. But then I started walking through favelas, major urban areas like rio São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, small towns like Arraial do cabo where it’s run by a militia and it’s very pro bolsonaro. You have to understand militias to understand bolsonaro. It’s almost like if your small town militias in America Started to take over policing and mayoral functions in these small towns and even became a little despotic. Brazil has heterogeneous security and the militias pick up the slack but they also start to get big headed about the power they have. They will move people out of their apartments by force and take all of their stuff. It can be a little fascists in these smaller areas run by militias. Some areas like arraial do cabo it’s been a good effect and seems to have enabled a tourist trade if you don’t mind walking past machine gun guards on the way to the beach. In areas in Rio lime Recreo dos Banderitas it seems more fascistic and not a good influences, dangerous even. Brazil is both a first world country and a third world country all at once… as American seems to be moving closer to. But what works in American is not necessarily going to work here. Hell it doesn’t even seem to work in America.