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THE most passionate Bongbong Marcos (BBM) supporters regard his presidency as the fruit of his father's (Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.) legacy, and the Filipino voters' belated appreciation of that legacy. Neither the wisest nor the dumbest Filipino student of history ever thought that 36 years after the strongman Marcos fell in a US-instigated, civilian-supported military coup, his son and namesake Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. would recapture the presidency, with the biggest electoral mandate in the nation's history.

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