Meet Steve Bannon's pal, the Rush Limbaugh of Brazil...

Olavo de Carvalho, and he resides comfortably in rural Virginia (nice proximity to the U.S.power-seat) Bannon is worldwide poison— he’s advised nearly all of the recent right-wing populist governments/movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, France, UK (Brexit) and now Brazil. It’s not just Trump; Bannon and his fellow travelers are bent on turning the world upside-down. To what end seems nebulous, unless it’s international intolerance and repudiation of liberal democracies.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hes-the-rush-limbaugh-of-brazil-he-has-bolsonaros-ear-and-he-lives-in-rural-virginia/2019/07/14/4f73dee2-8ac4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html%3foutputType=am
He’s the Rush Limbaugh of Brazil. He has Bolsonaro’s ear. And he lives in rural Virginia.
The Washington Post
By Terrence McCoy
July 14, 2019 at 3:08 PM EDT
Olavo de Carvalho, 72, sits at his desk at home in North Dinwiddie County, Va., where he has crafted hundreds of videos and social media posts that admirers and critics alike say helped propel right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro to power in Brazil.
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For years, Olavo de Carvalho has recorded and uploaded lectures and rants from his home office in rural Virginia for consumption in his native Brazil — videos, blog posts and social media riffs laced with obscenities, homophobia and dark proclamations about a globalist conspiracy bent on enacting what he calls a “worldwide socialist dictatorship.”

Now that message is enjoying its moment. Carvalho, 72, a self-styled philosopher living in a self-imposed exile in the United States, is credited by supporters and critics alike for providing the intellectual spark that ignited the rapid rise of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — the newest member in a global cadre of right-wing populists, from Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Hungary’s Viktor Orban to the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte to President Trump.

“We couldn’t have won the election without Olavo,” Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo said in March. “Without Olavo, there would be no President Bolsonaro.”

Carvalho, ensconced in a cavernous home library bedecked with a specific kind of Americana — rifles, paintings of Confederate generals, an English mastiff named Big Mac — is inclined to agree. “I created the hunger for different ideas,” he said. “There was no thirst. I created it.”
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Carvalho is poised to take his message beyond Brazil. Former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who says he’s met with Carvalho frequently, wants to install him as a lecturer at a training camp in Europe for the next generation of right-wing thinkers, if such a project moves forward, and feature him in televised debates. “A seminal thinker,” Bannon called him in an interview.
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