But there's another reason for Bolsonaro's tour of the United States: his continued appearances on US stages serve strategic purposes for far-right movements in both countries.
For Bolsonaro, participating in US political events shores up his claims that he has not exited politics and will eventually assume again leadership of Brazil's rightwing opposition, despite his current sojourn abroad.
"The Republican Party was sort of testing this thesis about, do we continue down this path of Trumpism, of extreme election denial, and that was being reflected in the right wing media's commentary on Brazil as well — they were testing that thesis both in the American elections and in the Brazilian elections," Peltz said.
Prominent American conservatives have long lent support to Bolsonaro." Bannon has long considered himself to sort of be the international boogeyman of the left," and his"next act" after leaving the White House was to form a sort of global coalition of far right movements, Peltz said. Brazil was one winning example of his political penetration.
First,"he's a former president of a fairly important country. Geopolitically, he was a fairly important ally to Trump, because he was 100% aligned with Trump." As a former leader in the global far-right and part of the"ecology," Bolsonaro's voice can be amplified in the US whenever his ideas are relevant, Nunes said.
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