>> THERE WAS A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RECENTLY IN THE
PHILIPPINES, THE FRONT RUNNER IS A PERSON WHO IS REFERRED TO
AS A MAVERICK.
HIS NAME IS RODERIGO.
JOHN OLIVER DID THIS INCREDIBLE PIECE ABOUT HIM EXPLAINING
WHY HE IS SUCH A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE.
BEFORE I GET INTO THE DETAILS OF ALL THE BAD THINGS HE HAS
DONE, UNDERSTAND HE IS A BIT OF A MIXED BAG.
THAT IS NOT TO SAY I AM IN FAVOR OF THIS POLITICIAN.
HE DID BECOME THE MAYOR OF HIS TOWN 22 YEARS AGO.
THE TOWN HE IS THE MAYOR OF WAS NOTORIOUS FOR HAVING HIGH
LEVELS OF CRIME.
CRIME HAS DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE HE HAS BECOME MAYOR.
HE IS IN FAVOR OF DEATH SQUADS THAT GO AFTER DRUG DEALERS,
THIEVES, ANYONE WHO BREAKS THE LAW.
THEY LITERALLY ASSASSINATE OR KILL THEM, WHICH IS INSANE.
>> THAT CAN BE A BIT PROBLEMATIC.
>> SO WHEN PEOPLE COME OUT AND SAY THIS GUY IS A WINNER,
LOOK AT WHAT HE MANAGED TO DO, YEAH, CRIME RATES WILL DROP
ONCE YOU HAVE VIGILANTE JUSTICE WHICH I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF.
HE HAS INDIVIDUALS ADVOCATING FOR THE MURDER OF THOSE WHO
BREAK CRIMES OR LAWS.
UNDERSTAND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ñ
IN THE UNITED STATES YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A SYSTEM
OF GOVERNMENT WHERE SOMEONE STANDS TRIAL, THEN YOU'D
DETERMINE WHETHER THEY ARE GUILTY, THEN THE CRIME GETS
ITS CONSEQUENCES.
IN THE PHILIPPINES, THAT WOULDN'T BE THE CASE.
HE IS IN FAVOR OF DOING THIS WITHOUT THE COURTS GETTING
INVOLVED.
>> SO, HE CRUSHED.
HE NEARLY DOUBLED HIS OPPONENTS.
12.1 TO 6.8.
THIS WORKS.
I do FIND HIS GRANT OF POPULISM INTRIGUING.
YOU KNOW I AM ON
BERNIE SANDERS SIDE, BUT I ACTUALLY THINK HE IS A
COMBINATION OF DONALD TRUMP AND BERNIE SANDERS.
IF YOU ARE A TRUE POPULIST DEMAGOGUE, THAT IS THE WAY
YOU WOULD GO.
HE SAYS LET'S KILL THEM ALL.
THAT IS OBVIOUSLY TRUMP LIKE.
HE TALKS ABOUT HIS OWN LIBIDO AND HIS SEXUAL PROWESS ON
THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
>>HE ALSO MAKES UNSAVORY JOKES ABOUT RAPE.
HE HAS THAT DISGUSTING RHETORIC OF TRUMP, BUT THEN WHEN IT
COMES DOWN TO POLICY THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
HIM AND BERNIE SANDERS.
HE IS AGAINST HUGE TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY AND WANTS
TO HELP THE POOR.
THAT KIND OF MESSAGING RESONATES WITH A GREAT DEAL OF VOTERS.
>> AND HE RECOGNIZES THE HORRIBLE INCOME INEQUALITY
AND SAYS HE WILL FIGHT AGAINST IT.
THERE IS AN ESTABLISHMENT THAT IS KEEPING PEOPLE DOWN.
I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND IT IS NOT A BLACK-AND-WHITE ISSUE.
HE IS A COMPLICATED CHARACTER, AND IF YOU WANT TO COOK UP
A POPULACE AND DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE RESULTS OF HIS POLICIES
THIS IS A PERSON YOU WOULD COOK UP.
HERE IN AMERICA, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE PRETENDED FOR DECADES
THAT THE POPULIST POSITION IS BEING PRO-BANKER, PRO-RICH,
AND PRO-ñ THIS IS NOT IT.
I GET THAT ON THE CRIME ISSUES, NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES
THE POPULIST DEMAGOGUE POSITION IS YES, LET'S GO GET THEM ALL.
It'S A LONG WAY OF ME SAYING THIS IS A LOGICAL OUTCOME IN A
DEMOCRACY.
I AM NOT SAYING IT IS DESIRABLE, BUT I AM NOT SURPRISED BY
THIS AT ALL.
>>BACK IN 1989
THERE WAS A HOSTAGE SITUATION IN THE CITY THAT HE IS THE
MAYOR OF.
A 36-YEAR-OLD
AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY WAS HELD HOSTAGE AND BRUTALLY RAPED.
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT AS HE WAS CAMPAIGNING.
HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
>> WOW.
>>THOSE WERE THE STATEMENTS HE MADE.
HE GOT A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF CRITICISM.
HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT.
HE LATER DID APOLOGIZE, BUT HE DIDN'T REALLY APOLOGIZE.
FIRST OF ALL, HE SAID HIS STATEMENT WAS NOT A JOKE.
HOWEVER, HIS STATEMENT WAS PART OF A NARRATIVE.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT MAKES IT BETTER?
THAT DOESN'T MAKE THINGS BETTER.
I KNOW WE HAVE COMPARED HIM TO TRUMP, AND I DESPISE TRUMP
BUT WITH THAT SAID I CAN'T SEE TRUMP SAYING SOMETHING THAT
HIDEOUS, RIGHT?
>>HOLD.
>>I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF HE DID.
>> HE MENTIONED HOW HE WOULD LIKE TO DATE HIS DAUGHTER.
IT'S NOT AS BAD AS THIS, BUT THE GUY
IS SUPER CREEPY.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO SAY NEXT.
>>RIGHT.
>> SO YOU GET A SENSE OF THE GUY.
AGAIN, THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT DEFINES HIM AS
ATROCIOUS AS THAT.
I AM JUST GIVING YOU ñ I HAVE NO OPINION ON FILIPINO POLITICS,
BUT I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND.
WHEN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
LIE TO YOU AND TELL YOU THE POSITION OF HELPING THE POWERFUL
IS ACTUALLY A POPULAR POSITION, IT IS NOT A POPULAR POSITION.
WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, AND HALF OF THESE THINGS WE DO
NOT LIKE IT ALL.
I UNDERSTAND WHY HIS POSITIONS ARE POPULAR.
HE IS A CLASSIC POPULIST.
HE WON EASILY.