Who won Brazil’s presidential election Sunday? One answer is Inacio Lula da Silva, though the cheating was so obvious that the polls may be annulled. But if results hold, another clear winner would be China. Which would leave two losers: his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro, and the United States.

You wouldn’t know it, of course, by looking at American politicians who took to social media to congratulate the man known worldwide as Lula. It was unseemly, as his victory clearly cuts against American interests, but that’s a second-order consideration, if it is considered at all.

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