FRANCISCO S. TATAD
President Rodrigo Duterte promised change. And within 100 days he delivered. But it is change that tends to divide, rather than unite, the nation. In one fell swoop, he has changed the very concept and course of the presidency, the rule of law, the moral value of good and bad, of right and wrong, and the country’s foreign relations. Many who should have rejected the wrong things he said chose to applaud, embrace and glorify him instead. Scoffing at all moral, spiritual, and constitutional norms, they used the social media to silence or threaten DU30’s critics.