What the U.S. Can Learn from Brazil

“The run-ups to the most recent presidential elections in the Western Hemisphere’s two largest democracies were remarkably similar,” the New York Times reports.

“Down in the polls, the right-wing president claimed, without evidence, that the election could be rigged. He suggested that he might not accept a loss. And millions of his followers vowed to take to the streets at his command.”

“But the outcomes, at least so far, have been drastically different.”