Yesterday, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, made a brief statement in which he did not concede to his opponent in Sunday’s run-off election, Lula da Silva. Afterwards, however, his chief of staff stated that a transition is now underway.

If so, every major country in the Western Hemisphere from the Arctic to Antarctica is now – or soon will be – in the hands of explicitly Communist regimes or like-minded ideologues. That’s dangerous for freedom in general, and America in particular.

To be sure, this “fundamental transformation” has been a long time coming, but it has accelerated dramatically thanks to the Biden administration’s malign neglect, if not its active encouragement. Especially the Communists’ victories on its watch in Peru, Chile, Colombia and now Brazil will imperil U.S. economic interests, assure increased illegal immigration here and cement China’s colonial domination of our hemisphere.

God help us.

This is Frank Gaffney.