Brazil Braces for a Verdict on Its Ex-President -- and on Its Democracy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Few other Latin American leaders have been willing to talk back to Trump, and Lula enjoyed a surge of support.
51% : Still, he has an ally in Donald Trump, who has championed Bolsonaro as "a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World," and, in a string of social-media posts, dismissed his prosecution as "a Witch Hunt."
40% : It happened to me, times 10." There are undeniable similarities between the two men, but they are less flattering than Trump intends.
40% : Like Trump, Bolsonaro spent years insisting that his country's electoral system was rigged -- except when he won.
38% : Still, when I spoke with him earlier this year, Lula suggested that the real concern was not just a fight between him and Trump.
37% : As Bolsonaro ascended, he attached himself explicitly to Trump.
36% : Lula, a veteran left-wing politician who will turn eighty this fall, publicly chastised Trump for behaving like an "emperor," and said that, if the U.S. wouldn't coöperate with efforts at diplomacy, Brazil would retaliate against the tariffs.
34% : If convicted on all counts, Bolsonaro and his seven alleged co-conspirators, who include former senior military officers, could receive prison sentences of up to forty-three years.
34% : During his 2018 campaign, Bolsonaro railed against what he called "gender ideology" -- the same liberal stances on feminism, race, L.G.B.T.Q. causes, and environmental conservation that Trump dismisses as "woke."
30% : And, like Trump, he summoned an insurgency to overturn the results when he lost.
30% : " When I met with de Moraes in Brasília last spring, he said that these sorts of threats only made him more convinced that he needed to defend Brazil's democracy against figures, like Trump and Bolsonaro, who seek to bring about a new era of authoritarian rule.
24% : Nevertheless, Trump has insisted that his Brazilian counterpart is guilty of nothing more than having "fought for THE PEOPLE," and has warned Brazil's prosecutors to "LEAVE BOLSONARO ALONE."
24% : " Soon after Trump announced his tariffs, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked de Moraes's U.S. visa, and the Treasury Department targeted him using the Magnitsky Act -- a measure that effectively subjects offenders to economic isolation.
18% : Trump blustered that Bolsonaro was the victim of "an attack on a Political Opponent --

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