nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230110-001635-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230109s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230110-001635-0 doi eng 342 23 Bustamante, Thomas Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-4493-0088 Political Terror in the Shade of Bolsonarism Bustamante, Thomas Verfassungsblog 2023-01-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The attacks of Bolsonarist supporters on democracy and the rule of law in Brazil have reached an extent that has never been witnessed in Brazil since the promulgation of the Constitution of 1988. On 8 January 2023, emulating the events of 6 January 2020 in the USA, a mob of 3,000 Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed the buildings of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court, and the Presidency of the Republic in Brazil, which are all located in the famous quarter known as the “Three Branches Square”. In a way, the invasion of the US Capitol has been more tragic, given that human lives have been lost. But there is a sense in which the assault in Brazil was more devastating from a symbolic point of view. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bolsonaro Constitutional Crisis federalism Populism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/political-terror-in-the-shade-of-bolsonarism/ raw object