Because, as much as it hurts me to say it, he is charismatic. So he appeals to a certain portion of the extreme right, conservatives, military and so on. And these folks are growing in number.

In any given modern society, there will always be people located in the continuum of political ideology, ranging from Extreme Left to Extreme Right, and everything in between.

Bolsonaro is a clown. That can’t be stressed enough. But so is Donald Trump and look where he is now.

Brazil is not exactly following the global trend towards conversvatism, well, it is, but hardly for the same reasons. We don’t have a problem with immigration here, like the US and Europe do. So, the rise in conversavatism in those regions can be partly explained by this.

In Brazil, well, it is a little more complicated. In any case, conversatism is on the rise here, there is no doubt about it. Partly because of the growing influence of the church in government, partly because of the current political climate, in which the polarity is very strong - all of this drives people toward the extremes.

And Bolsonaro, well, he has his opinions (on human rights, abortion, gay marriage, etc) which are very much aligned with the growing numbers of hardcore conversatives (and even some fucktards numbskulls who are, like him, in favor of a Military Intervention): he speaks his mind (gotta give him some credit), he shows no fear, and he doesn’t sound like a politican, because, well, he isn’t. As a congressman he’s mostly useless. In his 25 years serving the lower house he passed one, yes, one ammendment. But people who are his fans don’t really care about this. They care about him, the bullshit he says, and all the show he puts on in front of the cameras.

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There are many reasons.

First of all the left insists in disrespecting traditional values, Christianity and so on in order to push their agenda - people simply got tired of it. Speaking of disrespect, the people decided they didn’t wan’t to be disarmed in a Referendum in 2005, what the left did? Disrespected it, yet another reason why Bolsonaro is so popular.
Bolsonaro, since day one, promised to reduce tax and burocracy, something long awaited by the Brazilian people tired of the leftists who insist in creating even more taxes to solve to ginormous debt Brazil has acquired. A regular person these days works about 3 months just to pay taxes in Brazil and they better not expect getting a whole lot in return - people realized taxes slow down the economy and generate massive unemployment. Any business involving the State is slow, tedious and expensive - another thing people are sick of and that Bolsonaro promised to change.
Yes, Bolsonaro is charismatic and speaks his mind but the constant attacks he suffered also seemed to make people side with him as well - the opposition literally gave him advertising with their attacks.
The one that sums it up pretty well is the need for change. The “worker’s party” stayed in charge for more than a decade, they insisted on the same old things that didn’t work, what did they expect? Brazil was in need of hope and Bolsonaro personified it - too bad many people forgot about the Congress.
Do I think Bolsonaro is perfect? No, but he’s brought some change to the table and anyone who knows anything about politics in Brazil will tell you this is pretty much impossible to achive.

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