…where an authoritarian ruler was unseated (and conceded defeat) and an aspiring authoritarian (and son of a convicted insurrectionist) was defeated by the incumbent man of the left. I’m sure it’s a great relief to civilized people in both countries.

UPDATE: Longtime reader S. Wallerstein, an American in Chile, writes:

Some are saying that the deciding moment in Lula’s successful campaign was when Bolsonaro Jr. contemptuously called him “nine fingers” in the final TV debate and Lula,   who had lost a finger in an accident operating a lathe,   reacted calling that an insult to all the working people in Brazil from a rich kid who had never had a job in his life and demanded that Bolsonaro apologize on the spot to the working people of Brazil,   which he did,   after a certain telling hesitation.     Class counts in politics if you play it right.