IT is no surprise that Pinoy social media are not quite celebratory about this new President.

After all, the dominant voice of the middle and wealthy classes on social media was a pro-Roxas, anti-Duterte one—choosing between good and evil, continuity versus change, #DaangMatuwidPaMore versus #ChangeIsComing. It was the election battle simplified between notions of decency versus rape jokes, classy versus communist.

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