Representações sobre o antipetismo na Folha de S. Paulo nas eleições de 2018

Abstract

In this dissertation, it was demonstrated that anti-petism is not just an opposition to the agendas proposed by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), which would be justified by believing that this political party is the most corrupt in the history of Brazil. It was found that anti-petism has historical ties with anti-varguism, anti-communism and anti-leftism, which are ideological positions that have been delegitimizing, throughout history, governments with great popular support. The objective was to analyze the anti-petism representations in the journalistic columns of Reinaldo Azevedo and Demétrio Magnoli to the Folha newspaper in 2018, showing that these texts systematically convey negative articles against the PT. Methodologically, therefore, the reading and analysis of the sources was developed from the conceptual keys of patrimonialism, populism and, finally, that the PT would be an authoritarian political party. In other words, the reading of each journalistic column was done observing whether, when referring to the PT, journalists would attribute to the party, in a more visible way, a patrimonialist/corrupt aspect, a populist aspect or an authoritarian/antidemocratic aspect. By observing that the social class that is going to most act in defense of anti-petism is the middle class, it was found that the hatred towards of the PT on the part of the anti-PT group stems from an social classes discrimination, which in the case of Brazil, worsens with the aspect of our slave-owning past. This hatred stems mainly from the fact that public spaces previously exclusive to this group, such as universities, are now disputed, from the PT governments, by the proletariat class. In the end, it is perceived that the hatred towards of the PT has generated situations in which assistance to the disadvantaged people is denied, as it is, in the view of a specific social group, a populist measure, this can be observed in the denial of assistance programs that guarantee basic food and encourage access to school for subproletariat families.