The Crowd That Toppled a Dictator — and the Warning Trump's America Needs to Hear Now

THE FALL Part 4: When Marcos was removed in 1986, the structural conditions that made him possible remained. This is the lesson America needs.

This year marks forty years since millions of Filipinos stood on a highway in Manila and faced down a dictator without firing a shot. The anniversary has been marked with ceremonies, retrospectives, and a quiet, bitter irony that history does not always distribute fairly: the president of the Philippines today is Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son and namesake o…