The way things are taking shape in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte could soon be out ¡ª and back.
Barred by the constitution from standing again for the presidency, Duterte is preparing for life after next year¡¯s elections from a position of unprecedented strength.
He will almost certainly test norms well-established even in a country where personality and name have long mattered above all else. The anti-Duterte camp will cringe at the prospect of having a coarse, pugnacious populist around for years to come. Yet it¡¯s the nation¡¯s democracy and its coronavirus-battered economy that would suffer most.
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