I don't think it's that easy to "just fix the election". There are a lot of people involved in that stuff, especially in a huge country like Brazil. A small, principled minority of people going "Wtf no we won't go along with this" would be enough to cause an international scandal if you tried to do that, and you can't just murk everyone involved.

In general I think people here overestimate the power of the establishment in that regard. Their plans to install Jeanine Áñez in Bolivia failed, same with :guaido: in Venezuela, and we don't know how many of their plans didn't even get that far. Don't get me wrong, the CIA and the US gov have a lot of power and influence, but they're not omnipotent puppet masters. There's way, way too many moving parts and potential points of failure.

I think Bolsonaro was their guy, but they looked at the situation in Brazil and decided there was nothing they could realistically do.