Polymarket: Will the US grant Flávio Bolsonaro political asylum in 2026?
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While Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America, and Alex Soros were cheering on Sunday after the runoff election victory of Brazil's socialist regime leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left has gone awfully silent as their ally in South America has unleashed a totalitarian crackdown against his opposition. The left claims, whether in the US, Europe, or elsewhere, that it is all about "saving democracy." In reality, these leftists are all about weaponizing the courts to crush their opponents in what can be viewed as total lawfare and massive hypocrisy.
The timeline highlights how quickly Brazil's post-election political crisis has unfolded.
Lula won Sunday's runoff after a Supreme Court decision extended voting by two hours, a move defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro cited in initially seeking to challenge the result. By Monday, Bolsonaro had abandoned plans to seek annulment and said Lula's federal police had seized his passport and barred him from leaving Brazil.
Reports emerged Tuesday that Bolsonaro had traveled through Argentina en route to the US, though Argentine officials denied he had entered the country. By late Tuesday, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported that he had arrived in Miami.
President Donald Trump said early Wednesday that he would have approved of Bolsonaro traveling to the US, although he believed the senator was in Argentina. Trump has alleged fraud in Brazil's runoff election.
The lack of scrutiny from Western news outlets and left-wing NGOs as Lula's socialist regime imposes court-ordered travel restrictions on Bolsonaro raises concerns about political persecution and the use of overreaching judicial power to attack the opposition. Every mainstream lefty outlet has been quiet about this, and that's very telling.
It is also worth noting that Bolsonaro's party also dominates the Senate, and Lula's move to go after his opponent immediately after the election suggests the political crisis is far from over; it's just beginning.