The Palace failed to project the President as a leader who is present, decisive, and clearly in charge. He cannot be the anti-corruption crusader when the scandal has swallowed his moral authority to lead. But that is what happened....
The view that the poor are recruited to serve an elite institution but are not fully protected by it is precisely the grievance that populists convert into political fuel...
Alan Peter Cayetano has now lost the speakership and the Senate presidency through the same combination of overreach, arrogance, duplicity, and contempt for majority rule....
