Of all the ascendant autocrats who have flexed their muscles over the last decade, only one can lay claim to a global reputation that rivals that of Donald Trump.
Others have been more cunning, more brutal and more successful at warping their countries’ institutions around them, but nonetheless, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro – proudly intolerant, perpetually antagonistic and openly affectionate toward a dictatorship that tortured and disappeared thousands of his countrymen – sits in a class of his own.
