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>Why not just get a new one?
He was elected just a couple months ago, now the vice-governor assumes office. Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court's president, deposed him after requests by a senator and the Attorney General. Not much of checks and balances, it was instant. It's chilling that any governor in the country can be overthrown by the Supreme Court in a matter of hours.
>What he could do anyway?
He commands the local police, federal police forces (besides the Army) are small. Both the state police and Army have been accused of a slow reaction, which might pave the way for purges. Lula's government will push forward with their plans for legislation and enforcement powers against hate speech, disinformation and threats to democracy.
>This is just low level vandalism, worth some hefty fines, but overthrowing the govt is a very srs charge.
Not so low level, they even ruined antiques and gifts from other nations.
It's not the first thing this happens, protesters have breached and vandalized buildings at the heart of power in Brasília before. Maybe bolsonarists imagined the Army would step in their favor and take over. They have a messianic mindset comparable to the effects of QAnon on trumpists, but it's not purely Americanization (see Sebastianism, which still echoed on Brazilian peasants centuries apart from its original context in Portugal). For the two months after the election, they expected Bolsonaro's military coup would arrive anytime soon in the next 72 hours. And Bolsonaro, after being hyped up as a fascist proto-dictator a step away from a coup for years, turned out to be the pussiest president in Brazilian history. And the Army is what is always was, loyal to the source of their paychecks.
Bolsonaro and bolsonarists have tried their hardest to kamikaze their entire movement. Standing in front of military quarters for two months demanding a coup was a dead end, nothing would come out of it, it was just political masturbation. It kept the diehard vanguard active, but further isolated them from society, making them an object of mockery, and slowly burning the movement's willpower and patience as the expected salvation never came. They're LARPing as trumpists, who failed and got crushed. And the Executive and Supreme Court are delighted to LARP as the triumphant American deep state.