While people in 50 states hold their breath to see where midterm election winds take us, the world turns. In Israel, a dizzying fifth parliamentary election in four years looks likely to give scandal-scarred Benjamin Netanyahu another turn. And in Brazil, voters have chosen to return scandal-scarred Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to office, a sharp leftward tack for the 130-million-strong democracy. We hope President-elect Lula, as he’s known, is driven less by know-nothing bombast than the very Trumpian Jair Bolsonaro, who accelerated deforestation of the Amazon, ignored COVID-19 warnings and show…
