Contexts
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The storming of the US Capitol building came as a shock to most Americans. But to many Filipinos the political tumult seemed familiar. In the thirty-four years since the ouster of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines has witnessed a dozen coup attempts, dozens of corruption scandals, three impeachment tries and one impeachment trial, the ouster of one president by mass protest, and the near ouster of the succeeding one by an even more massive protest. What
was shocking was that the revolt happened in the United States and was instigated by an American president.