Duterte triumphant

EXCEPT for the stragglers of the dying Yellow cult, I don't think there's any doubt that most people think that Rodrigo Duterte's presidency has been successful. This is despite the worst natural disaster ever to have hit the country, the Covid-19 pandemic that has brought to their knees even the most developed countries in the world, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and even Germany.

"Successful" is even an understatement since Duterte has undertaken, as I have discussed last Wednesday, seven breakthroughs that will change the trajectory of our nation. These are his furious wars against the communist insurgency and illegal drugs; his efforts to weaken the exploitative Philippine oligarchy personified by the Lopez clan as well as these oligarchs' (and mini-oligarchs, like the Philippine Daily Inquirer owners) weapon, their media outfits; his ending our vassalage to the US; his drive to finally build, what should have been built since our independence, modern infrastructure; and last, his bold resistance to the most elaborate scam ever foisted on the nation, the arbitration suit against China that was the project of a triad of oligarchs.