Military appeal backfires
A former Army captain, Jair Messias Bolsonaro surrounded himself with military in his surprising rise to power. He appointed generals to key positions in the administration, fueling the idea that, in addition to the power conferred by the polls, he would have the "power of the forces." This would protect him from any daring "coup" move against his mandate or would ensure his stay in office, in case that the political class, the judiciary and civil society prevent him from governing in his own way.
Mr. Bolsonaro shows, from the beginning of his term, that he is sensitive not to the parties or politicians who support him. Every supporter who attempted to criticize him throughout the journey was immediately discarded - Gustavo Bebianno, Joice Hasselmann, Major Olímpio etc. The president only gives explanations to the universe that he himself created and from which he is a hostage: his supporters in social media, the so-called "bolsominions."
As he had to give in two sensitive areas of his supporters' base - Health and Foreign Relations - the president decided to tinker with the Armed Forces, demanding loyalty but, above all, signaling that, having the military by his side, no one can overpower him. The resignation of the commanders of the Armed Forces, however, generated more unrest than happiness. The appointed military are very unlikely to feed the coup hallucinations of Bolsonarism.
The use of the Armed Forces in politics, that is, as an instrument of disrupting the constitutional order for the establishment of a new order, is, unfortunately, faced with the history of this country that we call Brazil. Our Republic was born from a military coup against the monarchy, stimulated by coffee barons and ranchers, dissatisfied with the abolition of slavery in 1888.
Our first two presidents - Deodoro Da Fonseca and Floriano Peixoto - were from the Armed Forces, but from 1894 to 1930, the politicians from São Paulo and Minas Gerais soon "kidnapped" the Republic, so that the new regime would meet the interests of those who held economic power - the rural oligarchies. In addition to demanding financial compensation for the "loss" of slaves, the occupiers of the central power did everything to marginalize the black people, now former slaves, making it difficult for them to access education and pressuring the new governments to facilitate the importation of workforce from Europe to "whiten" our labor force.
The "Res Public" of Brazil was born, therefore...
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