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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise
Description: Podcast: The Political Scene | The New Yorker (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly PromisePub date: 2023-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen Rodrigo Duterte ran for the presidency of the Philippines and won, in 2016, the Western press noted the similarities between this unconventional candidate and Donald Trump—who also liked to casually espouse violence on the campaign trail and beyond. Duterte used provocative and obscene language to tap into the country’s fears about a real, albeit overstated, drug probl...