The right experienced Dilma’s 2014 win as a devastating shock and began to organize

Evidence

Things were different for the right wing, especially for the well-organized and well-funded institutions that had been trying to push liberal ideas for years. They experienced the defeat as a profound and shocking loss. The Workers’ Party had been in power for three terms now. Would they ever leave? At one election party in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the news came as a lightning bolt. The organizer ran to the bathroom, locked himself inside, and began to weep. On corners of Facebook I barely knew about, they began to plan. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 550

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Brazilians punished Dilma for protests whose causes lay outside her power — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 460; Calls for Dilma’s impeachment began days after her reelection win — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 551

Broader Connections