Anne Applebaum

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The Bulwark Daily · Anne Applebaum: Globalized MAGA Kleptocracy · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

That, you know, there was a very strong group of people inside the MAGA movement associated with CPAC who are very keen on promoting the Bolsonaro family.

The son of Bolsonaro, the former Bolsonaro president, is running for president now.

And they were trying to use these different levers of U.S.

power to help them.

There was a weird break moment where yet another billionaire, a Brazilian meatpacking billionaire, intervened and brokered some kind of meeting between Trump and Lula, the Brazilian president.

And they seemed to kind of hit it off, you know, kind of two elderly populists.

sharing their grievances.

And that seemed to calm things down for a while.

And there was some tariff relief.

And then it reverted back to where we had been before.

So it's not like there's a clear trajectory.

But yeah, you're right.

I mean, I think basically the administration would like

the Bolsonaro family to return to power.

And that's something that's maybe of interest to some people in the business world.

There is a Brazilian Supreme Court, which has been willing to block or regulate tech companies in a way that not that many other people dare.

And Elon Musk in particular was angry with fine that Twitter had to pay

because it broke some Brazilian laws.

And he ranted against the judges, especially the chief justice on Twitter.

And all of those things are putting pressure on the Brazilian system.

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