How might we understand the current political formations that emerged from the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the parliamentary coup in Brazil? Despite the U.S. disavowal for human rights violations in foreign policies, the victory of explicitly anti-black, anti-female, anti-gay, anti-poor forces in both democracies seems to be part of the vociferous restructuring of global racial capitalism, apartheid enforced by law and police violence. The more conventional analysis is that the Brazilian coup and Trump's election represent a threat to electoral democracy. Within this perspective, the protests generated by the outcomes of electoral politics in the United States and Brazil aimed to counter the reproduction of white supremacy and racial capital. We propose an alternative reading: the political conflicts that emerged in the aftermath of both events illustrate democracy's strength and its fulfilling promise to maintain racial domination and the political grammar that authorizes its reproduction. If we consider the continuum of racial violence—from slavery to democracy—that permeated the human rights–oriented Obama and Rousseff administrations, why would we unquestionably accept that liberal democracy is the pathway to racial integration and to control anti-black violence and police terror in Brazil and the United States?

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巴西和美国的安全国、民主庇护所和俘虏母亲

我们如何了解从美国和巴西的议会政府选举选举中出现的当前政治形成情况？尽管美国在外交政策中否认侵犯人权，但在这两个民主国家中明确反黑人、反女性、反同性恋、反贫困的力量的胜利似乎是全球种族资本主义的喧嚣重组的一部分，种族隔离被强制执行通过法律和警察暴力。越来越传统的分析是巴西政变和特朗普的选举代表了对选举民主的威胁。从这个角度来看，美国和巴西的选举政治结果引发的抗议旨在对抗白人至上和种族资本的再生产。我们建议另一种阅读：这两起事件之后出现的政治冲突说明了民主的力量及其实现的承诺，以维持种族统治以及授权其繁殖的政治语法。如果我们考虑贯穿以人权为导向的奥巴马和罗塞夫政府的种族暴力的连续统一体——从奴隶制到民主——为什么我们会毫无疑问地接受自由民主是通向种族融合和控制反黑人暴力和警察恐怖的途径？在巴西和美国？