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Starting a decade ago, the Brazilian echoes of American politics became too eerie to deny -- like watching a spinoff of a U.S. television series with a two-year production lag and a few homegrown plot twists. WHY would two nations separated by thousands of miles, with such different political histories and socioeconomic structures, have of late walked such similar paths? Here's my best answer, in today's @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/opinion/brazil-...