Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s experience in power in Brazil illustrates that a broad-front strategy in campaigning is decidedly weaker as a case for how to actually govern.

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In 2022, Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil, went all in on a strategy of sowing doubt about his country’s ability to conduct a free and fair election. Fuming at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for investigating him and his allies for antidemocratic words and deeds, including their participation in a vast conspiracy to disseminate fake news during the 2018 presidential election, Bolsonaro urged his support

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