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I found this to be an interesting talk and didn't know where it could fit well in an existing thread, so a new one. Talks about the Philippines as a raising democracy country. Other examples being Turkey, India, and a lesser extant Iran, where all apparently have the Trump-like sort of winners, i.e. populists or local governors that were also anti-establishment, which may be finding a source from what the speaker calls as "grievance politics" which is probably what (the angry white men voters) enabled Trump to win as well. And so with this kind of people winning elections seems to show a tolerance for autocracy and political tolerance for the strongman at top. So in the case of the Philippines, it is said here that even though GDP growth has been very good in the last decade or so, very few people reap the gains, so that caused many voters to seek an outsider. Another interesting point is deep federal style of the provinces which are almost like ruling dynasties of their own province, with family members making up the bulk of positions. Another point was the existence of a feeling of "Imperial Manila" which stems from complaints about Luzon "colonizing" the southern area, which may be another reason for Duterte, a governor from the south, was able to get elected. Well anyway, there's a lot more, it's an interesting talk.