Against a disruptive president, New York elects an unlikely mayor. And now?
Chad also says that the American progressive press celebrated the result as the first “reaction” to Trump’s second and more radical administration. The Republican president argued that the defeats were not his, because “he was not the one being tested” at the polls.
But Igor Gielow, from Folha de S.Paulo, warns that New York, the largest American city, “is not the USA”, just as São Paulo does not correspond to a portrait of Brazil. And for Gielow, the disruptive billionaire continues to be the “owner” of the Republican right, and the Democrats remain split.
Leonardo Sakamoto, in turn, states that the victory of a self-declared socialist could show a bolder path for the left in Brazil, where party machines tend to push electoral campaigns increasingly towards the supposed center in search of electoral victories.
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