Dilma’s 2014 victory immediately pivoted left-of-center voters’ hopes toward austerity

Evidence

VERY QUICKLY AFTER DILMA WON, it became clear that we were not going to live through a socialist revolution. She appointed a finance minister whom most of the left considered to be a neoliberal. Cuts were coming. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 546

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Center-left parties’ embrace of austerity fueled the European populist upsurge — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 111; Post-2008 austerity discredited center-left parties and radicalized a generation into populism — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 25; Austerity-driven left challengers displaced collapsing social democratic parties across Europe — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 96

Broader Connections

• Post-2008 austerity discredited center-left parties and radicalized a generation into populism #corroborates (0.82) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 25
• Center-left parties’ embrace of austerity fueled the European populist upsurge #corroborates (0.80) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 111
• Austerity-driven left challengers displaced collapsing social democratic parties across Europe #expands (0.74) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 96