Had Mr. Aquino lived in the 12th century, he would have been a perfect recruit for the tenacious, unwavering soldiers of the Inquisition, that relentless war against the ungodly heathens. From Day One of his office till now, there is hardly any presidential function that is not devoted to his self-proclaimed duty of purging the modern-day heretics – crooks in whatever form or guise. Every public forum is used by Mr. Aquino to rally the nation for the supposed good fight against those who subvert his “ reforms.”

Not only is Mr. Aquino the first president to act as if the presidency were about a crusade. There has been no president, before Mr. Aquino, who has defined governance (and the governed) in such stark and apocalyptic terms: the good side which he claims to represent and the bad side represented by his critics. White, which he represents, and black, which is the side of his detractors. Though his government is often called a “yellow regime,” there has never been an instant that Mr. Aquino backed out from his black or white view of the world.

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