President Lula , in theory, would be right when a leader of a great power intervenes in internal affairs, such as Donald Trump using his social media to consider Jair Bolsonaro a political victim. However, he was wrong.

The same Lula, last week. Populism is the name of all this. When leaders think they are above liturgies and protocols to say what they want in supposed direct contact with the population - something that social networks have only encouraged.

Today, Lula immediately retaliated against Trump. He invoked democracy and sovereignty. This phrase would be very appropriate if we had a statesman as president of the Republic. But since the incoherence is clear, the fight sounds more like a dispute between bullies. In fact, Bolsonaro would not be behind in this dispute of inflated egos of these leaders who cannot control themselves. Who treat their own impulsiveness as a political quality.

There are fights in which no one is really right. Trump, for example, is scandalous when he claims the innocence of a notorious coup plotter, who only failed to go ahead with his attempt to install a dictatorship in Brazil because he lacked the support of his own people. Lula, on the other hand, only fails to intervene in all the world's conflicts because he lacks the strength to do so.

It left aside the partnership with liberal democracies to join the club of large and small dictatorships that form the BRICS, coincidentally gathered in Brazil (apart from the powerful ones like China, Russia and the center of attention, Iran).

But there is another target in Trump's diatribe: the Supreme Court. If on the one hand the so-called Bolsonarism is waging an insidious campaign against our institutions, on the other, our judges are discredited by the majority of society (so the polls say) due to excessive interference, exhibitionism and even a certain vocation for censorship.

In a world that moves so fast, now is the time to be aware of the consequences. The United States will take a new step and trying to punish a Supreme Court justice is a feasible hypothesis. Another possibility is that this crisis will also turn into a froth, like so many others created by Trump. Who knows what the future holds. Even if Lula had not visited Kirchner, Trump would probably have done the same thing. But it would be one less incongruity to deal with.