Are You Really the Real Bong Home Coneqosi?

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Marcos seems to be drawing supporters from both ends of the aged spectrum. He portrays on social media is that he's a cool guy who like, doesn't get into politics. No one has quite figured out why older people seem to have changed their minds about what happened during the dictatorship. The philippines is a very familiar place. Young people listen to their elders. There are generational households here. Family is very a to filippinos. And so when an older person says, oh, well, you know, the marcos regime wasn't that bad, when they tell that to younger people, the young people are going to believe that. So it's like a perfect storm of

The son of repressive dictator Ferdinand Marcos was just elected president of the Philippines. All he had to do was rewrite his country’s history.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this story, our guest mistakenly said Ferdinand Marcos' body was flown from Hawaii to the Philippines in 2006. Marcos' body was returned to the Philippines in 2016. The incorrect date has been removed from the recording.

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