India and Brazil show that the right-wing nationalists have failed during the pandemic. But they weren’t the only ones.

“In 15 months, our government has offered a biblical lesson in mismanagement,” wrote political scientist Sohas Balchikar in the Indian Express. First, there was a heavy and somewhat ineffective lockdown that proved devastating to the country’s economy. Then, as Balchikar noted, the government struggled to provide adequate economic relief to a besieged country, failed to bolster vital healthcare infrastructure and slowed down the introduction of the vaccine. Referring to the initial boast of the BJP, he wrote: “The epidemic was not an easy thing. It was bound to be an ordeal for any government and” mistakes were bound “.” “But it is precisely because of that, that the wisdom is not in not claiming wisdom.”