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Was wondering what his hat said since it seems to be in the style of maga...
Says "O Brasil é dos Brasileiros" - Brazil Belongs to Brazilians
The slogan "x country for x nationals" when used to reinforce sovereignty in the face of external threats from colonizers is reasonable. It's not necessarily xenophobic in nature.
Sorry, I should have been more precise. I don't think Lula is like Trump. Just the hat shared resemblance with its bold two lines of text and that was odd.
At this point he's the only one directly standing up to the US and it's bs administration. I sure hope other countries take inspiration.
No worries. It was a valid concern. The key context here is that Lula is trying to reclaim national symbols from far right political opponents that use much less ambiguous slogans such as "brazil above everything, god above everyone".
I'm glad he fights with his gloves off. It's very effective. Right wing populism is insidiously contagious and Bolsonaro is in every way as bad as Trump in the US. Thanks for the insights!
Mexico, colombia and Venezuela too seem to be standing up fairly well
It is in the style of maga. Populists are gonna be populists, regardless of flavour.
Edit: Looks like people didn't like me pointing out that Lula is a populist.
Yes, it is in style of maga, but context is needed. Earlier this year (or last year, I don't remember quite well), the "patriotic" far-right was going deep into maga speech and behaving like Trump would rescue Brasil from "comunism". Lula started wearing that hat to counter their speech and reaffirm our sovereignty, which was really important after all the tariffs talk, and also passed off a lot of far-right "patriots"
A very populist move to do.