Quote from: Flying Hellfish on October 28, 2018, 11:58:02 PM

Serious question, do people in Brazil think Trump is Facist? Is it a small number of people that think this or is it a wide spread belief/assumption?

In Brazil, the biggest media players are all associated with the liberal media worldwide. Our biggest journals (like Globo, Epoca, Estadao, Folha de Sao Paulo) are basically all the same and they use as reference:

-The New York Times
-The Guardian
-The Economist (The Communist, as we call here in Brazil, because they support Lula)

And so on.... nobody says anything about FoxNews for example.

So yes, the media here in Brazil call Trump a fascist.

However, the social networks like Facebook, Tweeter, etc, are allowing us to have access to different point of views. So I believe Trump is not that unpopular here. Most of the people who voted for Bolsonaro view Trump as an "American Bolsonaro".

I believe that now Brazil will get closer to US, as both presidents now have a similar personality and objectives (both are nationalists and against globalism)