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THE PINK PLAGUE

Last month, we saw how the foul-mouthed, Trump-imitating Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo argued against implementing a full lockdown against the coronavirus epidemic on the grounds that it was just “a little cold”, and that socialdistancing measures would not only ruin the economy but also allow the Communists and globalists who control sinister organisations like the World Health Organisation (WHO) to take over our societies by stealth. By implementing a programme of ‘sanitary correctness’ to augment their beloved political correctness, Cultural Marxists in the WHO and UN would imprison citizens in their homes, seize education systems, turn children gay, and convince them not to breed. By destroying Western economies and birthrates by promoting dangerous creeds like homosexuality or belief in global warming, the WHO hoped that citizens would become so depressed they would willingly destroy their own economies and begin to commit racial suicide through mass homsexuality, thus ensuring the inexorable rise of Red China, where Covid-19 originated in the first place. The best solution was to pursue a form of Trumpian right-wing ‘metapolitics’, in which free-market economics and good old-fashioned Christian values would be restored to save mankind from what Araujo himself has dubbed ‘the Communa-Virus’.

Did Bolsonaro and Araujo discover this conspiracy themselves? Not necessarily. Unlike his idol, Donald Trump, Bolsonaro actually reads books, and, after winning the 2018 election, proudly displayed the four key texts that inspired his victory: the Bible, Brazil’s constitution, Churchill’s memoirs and The MinimumYou Need to Know Not to Be an Idiot by the bestselling former student of alchemy turned right-wing media pundit, philosopher and author Olavo de Carvalho, now so famous in Brazil that he is known purely by his first name, like Elvis. Post-junta, Olavo was

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