President Bolsonaro of Brazil takes office January 1 with what journalists warn is a far right agenda

American Thinker. 

The global rejection of elite progressivism though populist revolt has reached Brazil and Western journalists are freaking out. Jair Bolsonaro is being inaugurated in Brasilia as president of the nation of 220 million, and he is not shy about laying out his agenda.

This is going to be hard to read when the basic premise is rejected and so is the language used to discuss it. I'm not going to internalize anything. Instead, the whole thing is looked at with maintained distance, as watching children argue and letting them have their dispute.

Everything journalists don't like they tag "far" right. Because regular right doesn't exist in their minds. It's how they think they isolate opinion as to "out there" to even consider reasonable, thus marking themselves too unreasonable to take seriously.

Then in response the regular right uses the convenient labels provide them by the same people, "progressivism" and "populism" and "nationalism" to tag groups of people who actually are none of that. They are individuals with their own unique concerns who cannot be described accurately with these convenient and lazy group labels. Yet they are tagged, so all discussion is reduced to convenience.

"Far right' my ass. And "populist" my other ass.

Now, how am I going to read anything that you write?

Bolsonaro on Monday tweeted that he was going to direct the education ministry to "fight the Marxist trash that has been installed in teaching institutions" and lift Brazil's poor educational standards.

Ha ha ha. He's doing it too.

He and members of his incoming government, notably his new foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, use the word "Marxist" to refer to the Workers Party and other left-wing groups.

Ah. He started it. Then you shoot back with "far right."

On Saturday, he tweeted that an imminent decree would make gun possession a lot easier for adults over 25 with no criminal record. 

He maintains that allowing "good" people to own guns will deter criminals, as well as bring down Brazil's record number of homicides, which reached nearly 64,000 last year.

See? "Good" vs "Criminals."

It's war!

Journalist cite polls that agree with their opinion as expressed in the poll, and far right writers cite studies that agree with their opinions.

Journalists also fear military rule.

Nearly a third of the 22 ministerial posts have gone to ex-military men, while the economy has been handed to a US-trained free-market advocate, Paulo Guedes, and justice to a star anti-corruption judge, Sergio Moro. 

The military has training, about everything having to do with order and subsequently every detail about being a man; how to dress, how to groom, how to walk, how to behave, how to greet people, how to write, how to communicate, how to sit, how to stand. I saw this in my own father who died at 87 years-of-age still standing at ease as a military man. With great posture, back straight and arms behind his back, sort of like being handcuffed, in ordinary conversation with the guys in the garage or the car painter at Maaco.

So at least 1/3 of Brazil's ministerial posts will be filled with men like that.

You can see how that would be worrisome to journalists with their floppy careless big mouth ways.

Eh, the article wasn't so bad as I had imagined given its initial slathering of labels.

But if you insist on calling journalists "progressive" then why not "far" progressive? Since you're using their labels then use their misleading adjectives too.

More about Bolsonaro and about journalists at the link.