In 2018, Brazil elected the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro as president. Unlike most successful populists around the world, he promised an extreme neoliberal economic policy and was disproportionately supported by the better-off. His main electoral base among the poor was in the burgeoning evangelical community, with which he has strong familial ties. How destructive is this combination of neoliberalism and evangelicalism going to be for the Amazon rainforest, its indigenous peoples, and the global future?