The occasion’s success has been constructed on focused social transfers, genuflection to the nation’s Catholic id and avowed nationalism. Nevertheless it additionally owes quite a bit to skilfully performed campaigns of collective concern and demonization. For a lot of the occasion’s eight years in workplace, migrants, ladies and sexual minorities have been the chief targets. The federal government additionally usually assaults the opposition, usually in luridly conspiratorial phrases. Its ministers and supporters recommend, for instance, that…
