ABSTRACT
Camila Rocha, Esther Solano, and Jonas Medeiros show how Brazil's New Right activism had flooded the streets and the social networks years before Jair Bolsonaro's ascension to the presidency in January 2019. This process promoted the emergence of new leadership and new forms of expression and organisation, as well as new ideas that started circulating with great strength in the Brazilian public sphere, inspired by libertarianism and condemnation of an alleged “left-wing cultural hegemony” within the country. As a background, the authors describe the activities of Brazil's right-wing in previous decades, assessing its links with the recent New Right. They also explain how, in the midst of political transformations occurring in the country, a new constellation of actors and ideas was formed, which over time largely contributed to the political turn to the right that Brazil experienced and the subsequent Bolsonaro's ascent to power.
