Sublime

Sérgio Moro, the one-time star judge of the Lava Jato investigation, was one minister whose allegiance looked likely to come into question. Moro had controversially joined Bolsonaro’s team in 2018 to take over the justice portfolio. He had argued that his presence in the administration was the best guarantee that the clean-up of political corruptio

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In fact, as would be demonstrated as soon as Johnson began hiring men on a large scale, the crucial qualification was subservience. Dignity was not permitted in a Johnson employee. Pride was not permitted. Utter submission to Johnson’s demands, the submission that Jones called “a surrender of personality,” a loss of “your individuality to his domin

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As President, conscious always of television, he tried to be what he conceived of as “presidential,” composed his face into a “dignified” (expressionless, immobile, carefully still) mask, spoke in deliberate cadences that he believed were “statesmanlike,” so that on television, which is where most Americans got to know him, he was stiff, stilted, c

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