On the internet, Ana Caroline Campagnolo, 27, likes to show with a rifle in her arms. But their favorite weapon is the cell phone: Brazil's students should use mobile phones to film their teachers when they were practicing "politically or partially stained criticism" of elected far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, the young woman recommended on her Facebook page at the end of October.

Students should note the name of the teacher, the date and place of the school, and send the material to their staff. For years, Campagnolo has fought to banish from their perspective left-wing ideology and sex education that violates "manners and decency" from Brazil's schools.

In the past, she was laughed at as a far-right outsider. But in October, the fervent Bolsonaro supporter was elected as a deputy to the regional parliament of Santa Catarina. Now she is in talks as Minister of Education of the southern Brazilian state.

Witch hunt on everything supposedly left

"Escola sem partido" (non-partisan school) is the name of the concept of a supposedly "ideology-free education" propagated by Campagnolo and her followers. Under Bolsonaro, the witch hunt is supposed to be on everything supposedly left-wing government policy. The ex-military wants to appoint the ultra-conservative philosophy professor Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez Minister of Education, a native Colombian, who has helped develop the idea of ​​"non-party school".

The public call for denunciation is part of a right-wing revolution, with which Brazil's elected president intends to revolutionize state schools and universities ideologically. For the educational institutions are considered strongholds of resistance to Bolsonaro. During the election campaign there had been riots between his supporters and rather leftist students at the universities.

Religious fundamentalists, who have great influence in the future Bolsonaro government, are pushing ahead with the project "Escola sem partido". The future minister of education belongs to the conservative wing of the Catholic Church; among Bolsonaro's closest confidants, who is himself a Catholic, includes ultra-honest evangelical preachers.

Bolsonaro's world in quotes

"I am for torture and the people are in favor of it."

Jair Bolsonaro 1999 in a television interview

"The mistake was to torture, not to kill."

Bolsonaro on the military dictatorship in June 2016 in an interview with the radio station Jovem Pan

"Elections will not change in this country at all, and it will only change if there is a civil war that does what the military government has not done, shoot 30,000 corrupt people - starting with Fernando Henrique Cardoso."

1999 in a TV interview; Cardoso was the first democratically elected president after the end of the military dictatorship in 1985

"In Memory of Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the Terror of Dilma Rousseff"

2016 in the vote on the impeachment of leftist President Dilma Rousseff, who was also tortured by Colonel Ustra

"The poor serpent"

2015 in an interview with Miriam Leitão's son Matheus Leitão Netto - the journalist Miriam Leitão was tortured during the military dictatorship and locked up in a room with a snake

"There will be a purge never seen in Brazil."

In October 2018 in a speech to followers

"Let us mow down the supporters of the Workers' Party!"

Bolsonaro in the campaign 2018 - with a camera tripod he imitated a machine gun

"Lula - you will rot in your cell."

In October 2018 on the imprisoned ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

"If these people want to stay here, they have to submit to our rights, or they'll leave the country or go to jail, these red bandits are banished from our homeland."

In October 2018 about followers of the left

"I have not the slightest doubt that I would close Congress, and I would overthrow that same day."

Bolsonaro's answer to the question of what he would do as president - 1999 in a TV interview

"I would not pay men and women the same salary, but there are many competent women."

2016 in a TV interview

"I would never rape you because you are not worth it."

2003 in the Chamber of Deputies to the parliamentarian Maria do Rosário

"I would not love a homosexual son, I will not be hypocritical, I would prefer my son to be killed in an accident, to show up here with a guy with a mustache."

2011 in an interview with a magazine

"There's no risk, because my sons were well educated."

In a television interview in 2011, he asked how he would react if one of his sons fell in love with a black woman

"If I see two men kissing each other on the street, I'll beat them."

2002 in an interview

"They do not do anything, I do not think they're even fit for reproduction."

2017 after visiting a quilombo, a traditional black settlement

"God over everything, I do not want a secular state, the state is Christian, and the minority who oppose it should go, minorities should subordinate to the majority."

2017 at a conference

"I will change the fate of the country."

After his victory in the runoff election for president

The fundamentalists are not only concerned with the fight against supposedly left-wing ideas, they also want to banish sex education and gender issues from the classroom. "They believe that the gender discussion is a work of the devil," says historian Marlene de Fáveri.

The respected history professor is the first victim of the witch hunt. Five years ago, she had agreed to supervise the master's thesis of the then student Campagnolo. Theme: "The history of the sexes". But the strictly Catholic student quickly quit her professor: she publicly accused her of propagating feminist theses and ideologizing the gender discussion.

"Eclat planned from the beginning"

Finally, she sued her professor for "ideological persecution and religious discrimination" in court. As a citation she quoted a book by the German theologian and feminist Uta Ranke-Heinemann, which de Fáveri had recommended for her to read.

Campagnolo lost the case, but she had achieved her goal: the dispute made headlines, it became known throughout the country. "She had planned the scandal from the beginning," de Fáveri believes. "It was the beginning of her political career."

In July, Campagnolo appeared as a guest speaker at the "First Antifeminism Congress" in Rio de Janeiro, organized by a former women's rights activist who had defected to the far right. The event in the side room of a church focused on the fight against abortion. At the same time, the ultra-right women campaigned: they sold Bolsonaro T-shirts in front of the entrance.

Fear of attacks

"Next, the Bolsonaro people will argue that the theory of evolution is banned from teaching," fears historian De Fáveri. She has been teaching at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis for 28 years. She is the author of a multi-award-winning reference work on the Nazi past of the state. Fascist ideas were widespread among the numerous ethnic Germans in Santa Catarina, and the NSDAP even opened its own foreign office in the city of Blumenau.

Under Bolsonaro, Santa Catarina is now considered a test laboratory for the right-wing revolution. In the presidential election, the ex-military in the state took over 70 percent. "Colleagues of mine were beaten by Bolsonaro supporters because they wore a red shirt," says De Fáveri.

The professor is now afraid of physical assault. "I thought our democracy was solid," she says. "But she is much more fragile than I assumed".