A Misapplied Solution

We are well aware by now that the answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with more of the same; but this pious and pro-life principle has been sadly subverted by a leftist politician in South America, where the Boris Johnson of Brasilia is due for democratic ejection in a few months. Defending their hero after his own fragrant fashion, Jair Bolsonaro's followers have emulated Johnson's Conservatives by dumping raw sewage at random; and last weekend an opposition party treasurer was rebuked to death at his own fiftieth birthday party by a Brazil First gatecrasher. Bolsonaro has proclaimed that he does not want the aid of violent supporters, and has balanced his proclamation in admirable BBC fashion by attacking the "undeniable history of violent episodes" which has characterised the South American left from the thousands who disappeared themselves under the dictatorships to the harsh language now used against logging and cattle companies fighting to civilise the Amazon. Despite having been shot three times, the assassinated treasurer lived long enough to perpetuate this record of communist mayhem by shooting back and inflicting serious injury upon the patriot who had administered his due and proportionate punishment.