Dilma saw protest as natural response to expanded citizenship rights.

Evidence

Dilma did not agree. Her theory was that once you deliver citizenship and some of its associated social benefits to a previously oppressed population, they ask for even more. That was only natural. She came up in this country as a dissident, and she was not going to be an anti-protest president. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 422

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone interested in Brazil’s Workers’ Party or Dilma’s psychology — sharp contrast between auto-fatal Erdoğan/Putin and Dilma’s social-democratic reading.
• QUESTION: Dilma’s refusal to be an anti-protest president — did this principled stance accelerate the right-wing drift that ousted her?