New image: As soon as he came into power, Marcos embarked on a global publicity campaign to rehabilitate his family’s reputation. — AFP
NICCOLO Machiavelli, arguably the greatest (and most controversial) late-Renaissance thinker, once counselled: “One must therefore be a fox to recogniSe traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
Since their surreptitious return to the Philippines following a few years of luxurious exile in Hawaii, the Marcoses pulled off one of the most successful “counter-revolutions” in contemporary history. Well before TikTok and social media transformed our politics, the Marcos dynasty had already managed to steadily regain its foothold in national politics with minimal resistance. By 2010, the scion of the family, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, seamlessly assumed a seat at the country’s highest legislative body – notably, just as Benigno Aquino III cruised to power based on a “good governance” platform.
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