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Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil, 2019 to 2022

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A former army captain who governed from the far right and loosened environmental protections in the Amazon. Brazil's Supreme Court later convicted him of plotting to stay in power after losing the 2022 election.

Jair Bolsonaro sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly traditional on culture, strongly growth-first on environment and strongly anti-establishment on institutions. The profile is close to the middle on interventionism.

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Where Jair Bolsonaro sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Jair Bolsonaro

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Political views closest to Jair Bolsonaro

Right-wing populismCasts politics as ordinary people against elites, mixing nationalism, tradition and…95%Religious rightSeeks to shape law and politics by religious, often Christian, values.91%National conservatismPrioritizes national sovereignty, cultural identity, tradition and firm borders.88%Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.88%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Isac Nóbrega/PR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.