Those who set the direction of what came to be called the National Revolution didn’t quite know what they wanted, but they certainly knew what they didn’t want: the growing radicalisation and constitutional crises, against a threatening backdrop of Communism, seen elsewhere in postwar Europe.
Chega managed to host the largest demonstration ever against a foreign head of state—and, in another first, secured unity among disparate factions of the Portuguese Right, which usually compete rather than cooperate.
