The global rejection of elite progressivism though populist revolt has reached Brazil, the giant of South America, and Western journalists are freaking out. Jair Bolsonaro is being inaugurated today in Brasilia as president of the nation of 220 million, and he is not shy about laying out his agenda. I am wary of calling him the “tropical Trump” (as some do) because he is unconstrained by our Constitution or political tradition, and Brazil does not have a spotless record when it comes to governance. Nonetheless, there are some pretty attractive planks in his platform, as he announced it yesterday on social media.   Jair Bolsonaro (photo credit: Agência Brasil Fotografias) Eugenia Logiuratto, with Jorge Swartzman report for AFP: Bolsonaro on Monday tweeted that he was going to direct the education ministry to "fight the Marxist trash that has been installed in teaching institutions" and lift Brazil's poor educational...(Read Full Post)