Democracy. Free speech. Rule of law. You want all three of those things. If you're trampling on one or two of them to defend the third, you're not in a good

Democracy. Free speech. Rule of law. You want all three of those things. If you're trampling on one or two of them to defend the third, you're not in a good place. Is it necessary? I could see a place where it was necessary. I do not know enough to know if Brazil is at such a place. But I know that, when someone wants to trample on free speech and rule of law in order to defend democracy, it is probably more likely that the person proposing it is not actually a friend of democracy either.