is he worse than trump or same level?
They're both so shitty that it's hard to quantify, but I'd say they're equally as terrible. Much like Trump, Bolsonaro built his image on the basis of "saying like it is".
They both show utter disregard for the lives of anyone that are not white males and one of the pillars in both their campaigns is selling paranoia and the idea that the white male's lifestyle is being threatened - you know, trying to push back against political correctness and all that.
Off the top of my head, here's some more aspects that really make him feel like Brazilian Trump: he has a history of inciting violence, homophobia and sexism. Lack of basic reasoning skills - which usually lead to him resorting to ad hominem in debates, which his voters love to parrot arround regardless of whether any of what he said actually makes any sense or not - , portraying himself as some sort of outsider hero to politics - even though, in this case that's not really true, he's been in politics for almost 30 years and has done shit all, etc...
But if you really wanna know how deep this shit goes, here's something a little more infuriating:
Bolsonaro is also a denier of the military dictatorship of 1964 while also revelling in its horrors. A couple of years ago our then president Dilma Roussef was impeached and, during the voting procedure, he decided it would be cool to pay a little homage to colonel Carlos Ustra, who became infamous for commanding torture sessions against Dilma during a dictatorship which, according to him, either wasn't
really a dictatorship or "didn't kill enough people". Dilma was not the only one to suffer from Ustra's sadism though. Entire families were tortured under his command. People were routinely beaten, vanished, kids were used to get their parents to confess to things they didn't do. There was at least one child who was raped and killed by the military at the time. And I cannot stress this enough: all the horror you just read is only an abridged version of the crimes comitted during the military dictatorship of 64. This is the man Brazil's president looks up to. This is his version of the "good old days".
I won't elaborate on what I wish would happen to him because, after writing this paragraph, I'm definitely not in a good mental state. It took a lot more out of me than I expected.
