Oitavo de Janeiro

I assume that is going to be the new catchphrase that will be bandied about in Brazil to stand for insurrectionism.

Because it was on January 8 - what "Oitavo de Janeiro" means in Portuguese - that Brazilian right-wingers supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro and believing the election was stolen from him stormed the presidential palace, Supreme Court, and headquarters of Congress in Brasília and vandalized the buildings in an effort to prevent legitimately elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from moving ahead with his efforts to tear out Tropical Trumpism.

Under any other circumstances, I would have been cheering on the vandalization of the buildings because, well, they're ugly Modernist mausoleums.  I mean . . . wouldn't you want to vandalize buildings that looked like this? 

This is the National Congress.  

But the vandals were there not to express architectural criticism but to show bad faith in the rule of law and the idea of one person,one vote that Lula believes in and Bolsonaro had tried to destroy.  

But you have to admit . . .

With a presidential palace like this, it's easy to see why Lula, who was away at the time, would be in danger.  All that glass.  As for Bolsonaro, as a president who lived in a glass house, he shouldn't have thrown stones.  

Last I heard abut Bolsonaro, he was doing what other Latin American tyrants known for going into exile do - checking in at the Fontainebleau Hotel (or, more likely, Mar-a-Lago) and checking out Florida real estate.