Mike Smith is a long-term foreign resident of Brazil who wrote this article re the upcoming Brazilian elections. We reprinted this post as a balance to anti-Brazilian populist press that is currently making out Jair Bolsonaro to be close to a fascist or demagogue ( ie Trump ). I see the country misrepresented abroad so often. Negative coverage has been amplified in recent weeks due to the epic battle for Brazils political and economic future played out in the presidential elections as the right wing misogynistic…