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Nara Roberta Silva

Oct 14, 2026

7:12
So if you could tell us about the social base of this right and how it's changed over the past, uh, decade or so.
7:19
Yeah.
7:20
So yeah, it's interesting because, um, the right wing, right, is particularly through Bolsonarismo actually was able to build a, uh, what I would call actually a very diverse right, uh, base.
7:34
You actually have people from, uh, different, uh, backgrounds that actually meet, uh, in this, you know, um, in this coalition.
7:44
So you have, uh, both...
7:46
You have, um, e- economic elites, right, that actually have, um, that are now actually trying to regain their control, more traditional economic elites that are trying to actually regain their control, that actually, um, don't agree with an approach, uh, that, with the approach that the Workers' Party has, um, developed throughout its, uh, its administrations.
8:12
That question, the more orthodoxy, um, like new liberal orthodoxies, right? You also have, um, some middle class, uh, folks who resent, right, um, the gains that, uh, um, other, um, segments of the population have made throughout, um, throughout the administrations of the Workers' Party, right? Considering that Brazil is a historically, um, um, is a historically unequal country.

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17:27
... you know, is, if you can, w- whatever you're about to say, if you can also address this question of, um, how, you know, how much, how much of what's going on is, is this kind of vibe shift that Michael mentioned and how much of it is that now that certain immediate crises have been addressed, voters are saying, "Well, there's other things," you know, including massive corruption, uh, or law enforcement abuse of authority or, or inequality that, that we see as crises too.

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