Right-wing politics

Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s hardline positions speak to working-class voters who say they feel the left has abandoned them.

Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he would stick to tough rhetoric in campaigning for the second round of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election. “I can’t turn into a Little ‘Peace and Love’ Jair, which would be betraying who I am,” Bolsonaro said in a radio interview. “I have to keep being the same person.”

Groups like the Green Tea Coalition are pitching conservatives an unlikely message on conservation and clean energy: Not only is it good for the free market, it’s good for national security, too. But the movement has a lot of convincing to do, and faces opposition from well-financed opponents like the Koch brothers.

An immigrant from Uruguay is a candidate for mayor of London. The irony is that Carlos Cortiglia is representing the far-right British National Party, known for its anti-immigration stance in UK politics.

David Sloan, an early Tea Party member, fears the Tea Party is being co-opted by the Republican Party. We spoke with him about what his particular fears were, and where he draws the lines of difference between the Republican agenda and his own.