Calls for Dilma’s impeachment began days after her reelection win

Evidence

Just six days after Dilma’s victory, they called for a protest to demand her impeachment. The event got the support of Olavo de Carvalho, an esoteric reactionary philosopher living in the United States with a committed online base, and they managed to put over two thousand people on the streets. On Twitter, I watched top Brazilian journalists chuckle at the folly of all this. This was just some kooks letting off steam. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 551

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A national humiliation on home soil transformed quickly into a manic embrace of defeat — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 537; Brazilians punished Dilma for protests whose causes lay outside her power — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 460; The right experienced Dilma’s 2014 win as a devastating shock and began to organize — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 550 (+1 more)