Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Bolsonaro has also defended his supporters.
Mr. Bolsonaro said on Friday that the riot was not an attempted coup, but instead “little old women and little old men, with Brazilian flags on their back and Bibles under their arms.”But the political reverberations have differed.
In Brazil, the political establishment has largely moved away from talk of election fraud — and from Mr. Bolsonaro himself.
Conservative leaders are now pushing a more moderate governor as the new standard-bearer of the Brazilian right.
Mr. Encarnación said that, despite its problems, Brazil’s democratic system can provide a model on how to fight new anti-democratic threats.
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