Brasilien über alles: Hitlerist rhetoric in Brazil and its consolidation in Bolsonarist discourse

Bolsonarism is a contemporary far-right movement, a ramification of the political takeover underway in Brazil during the last ten years; it quickly consolidated in the course of the last five years. This MPhil study's focus is to examine the apparent incoherence in the Bolsonarist speech, between its disingenuous rhetoric suggesting a commitment to democracy and its notorious reactionary and supremacist nature, not in a key of linguistics nor literary studies, but through the lens of historical studies, to better understand this contradiction between the Bolsonaro and his supporters’ proclaimed support for democracy and the actual consequences of their speech and behaviour.

The ensuing analysis identifies Bolsonarism’s principles as naturally resulting from Brazil’s long experience with the genocide of indigenous peoples and the slavery enterprise, the lack of transitional justice, the persistent practice of praetorianism and internal colonialism, recognising them as occurrences of quite a few equivalent values corresponding to those of Fascism and National Socialism, as well as those that influenced them, such as of Traditionalism, the fusion of Maurrasism with Sorelianism, the abuse of Darwinist ideas to create pseudoscientific racism and design the Jim Crow laws, and subsequent movements such as Integralismo or various post-fascist, White Supremacist, neo-Nazi groups that benefit from the consolidation of the contemporary global wave of far-right populism, concomitant with the NRx Alt-right, reating the multi-million supporters of leaders such as Trump, Orban, Meloni, among others.