Da Nova República à nova direita: o bolsonarismo como sintoma mórbido

Abstract

The present work is centered on a discussion about the crisis of the New Republic in Brazil - both from an institutional point of view and from its organic and ideological foundations - as well as the rise of new political groups in the first decades of the 21st century openly identified with a reinvented right, which found in the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency of the Republic in 2018 the institutional outlet of a long ideological dispute within civil society operated as a war of position. The central argument of this reflection resides in the categorization of the crisis of the New Republic as a crisis of hegemony, and, therefore, of the social pact of political domination built during the process of redemocratization of the 1980s and the 1990s. Immersed in an interregnum, Brazil would have, in Bolsonarism, the main symptom of this historical paralysis.