No settled explanation exists for Brazil’s protest-to-authoritarian reversal

Evidence

The police assault starts to become comprehensible if we analyze everything that led up to that night. But even more fascinating, even more puzzling, is what came next. How is it possible that the protests of June 2013 led to the country that existed by the end of the decade? This question is far from settled. When you pose it to the Brazilians who lived through all of this, you may be answered with careful (though usually varied and contradictory) analysis, or met with a flash of rage or a look of dejection, followed by an empty stare into the distance. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 39

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• XREF: connects to: Brazil’s 2013 mass protests preceded far-right authoritarian rule — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 41