Brazil Stood Up for Its Democracy. Why Didn’t the U.S.?

 "The biggest difference is that dictatorship is a much more real menace in Brazil, a country that democratized only in the 1980s, than it is in a country that’s never experienced it. Older Brazilians carry the scars, in many cases literal ones, of their fight against dictatorship. This fight for them is visceral in a way it isn’t—yet—for Americans."

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Brazil Stood Up for Its Democracy. Why Didn’t the U.S.?