It Took a Pandemic to Show the Real Limits of Dutertismo

In the long run, although, it was the pandemic that confirmed the bounds of his management — because it did for populists elsewhere, from Donald Trump in america to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. These leaders, as political scientist Aries Arugay, visiting fellow on the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, identified to me, are good at creating and magnifying crises, however much less adept at fixing them. And Covid-19 was all the time going to be a battle in a rustic with poor public well being infrastructure, a excessive stage of casual labor and densely populated cities. It now sits on the very backside of Bloomberg’s Covid-19 resiliency rankings.