Recently Brazil became an example of the destructive forces of populist extreme-right-wing governments. Indigenous and traditional populations, the environment, the few welfare state services (such as public health care and the higher education system) became obstacles for the reactionary agenda proposed by Jair Bolsonaro’s government. With the motto that “the institutions are working properly” other democratic powers such as the legislative branch and the judiciary granted a state of normalcy for what was clearly exceptional and anti-democratic, given the frequency with which Jair Bolsonaro runs over the Brazilian Constitution. In this context, many of the once hidden conservative groups that exist in the country felt entitled to make their stance through discourse and action. For some intellectuals, this showed the fallacy of the once praised cordiality of Brazilian people. For others, particularly those who have been historically subject to state’s structural violence, this was all too familiar. With this in mind, we asked a group of social scientists to elaborate on this political figure that is so hard to grasp. From his post-truth strategies to the forms of resisting his actions, the authors gathered here carefully analyze the consequences of Bolsonaro’s government as well as what can be already seen as something that may survive his own term as a political trope, named bolsonarismo.