Back in 1990, when the internet was still in its infancy, American lawyer Mike Godwin coined a law that now bears his name: “As [an internet] discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
With just months until Brazil’s next presidential election, there is plenty of evidence that Godwin’s Law has the country’s public debate in a hammerlock. From the left, there is no shortage of “satirical” cartoons portraying Jair Bolsonaro as Hitler. Meanwhile, the right has consistently made the absurd assertion that Nazism was “obviously” a left-wing ideology, as their full...
