Brazil’s 2013 mass protests preceded a radical right-wing turn, not reforms

Evidence

At the beginning of 2013, it was possible to claim that Brazil’s Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), or Workers’ Party, had carried out the most significant social democratic project in the history of the Global South. … But just a few years later, the country would be ruled by the most radically right-wing elected leader in the world, a man who openly called for a return to dictatorship and mass violence. Public services would fall apart as poverty mounted and officials bragged about the state murder of Brazilian citizens. In short—the Brazilian people got the exact opposite of what they appeared to ask for in June 2013. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 41

At the beginning of 2013, it was possible to claim that Brazil’s Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), or Workers’ Party, had carried out the most significant social democratic project in the history of the Global South. … But just a few years later, the country would be ruled by the most radically right-wing elected leader in the world, a man who openly called for a return to dictatorship and mass violence. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 41

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the core puzzle of the whole book, echoing the broader theme of protest backfires that ties to existing notes on how mass movements often precede outcomes opposite to their goals. — connects to: The 2013 Brazil protests demanded more of the very welfare expansion already underway — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 435; Right-wing groups hijacked the 2013 protest repertoire with elite funding — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 553; Brazil’s 2013 mass protests preceded far-right authoritarian rule — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 41 (+2 more)
• SEED: Potential article angle: the June 2013 Brazil protests as a case study in how participatory euphoria can be captured by opposite political forces.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 41

Broader Connections

• Brazil’s 2013 mass protests preceded far-right authoritarian rule #corroborates (0.98) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 41
• New social movements’ non-economic grievances fueled the right, not the left #expands (0.85) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 540
• Demonstrations detached from social movements and diffused into nondemocratic regimes #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1232