Is Leni Robredo still relevant?
Are both politically-active non-Yellowtards as complicit as their Yellowtard counterparts in contributing to artificially keeping Leni Robredo in the "news"?
This is actually a question that is not as easy to answer as one would think. The apparent landslide win of respective administration presidential and vice presidential candidates Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte rather than herald a graceful acceptance of the people’s clear will has launched talk of Opposition presidential candidate Leni Robredo’s “KakamPink” campaign team to persist as a militant “movement”. This was a concept already raised back in December last year by Yellowtard “thought leaders” Richard Heydarian and John Nery. Heydarian in a tweet issued a fearless forecast that, should she lose these elections, Robredo will go on to create a movement that will “be a FORCE to reckon with for years to come!”. Nery, for his part in a Rappler piece that predates Heydarian’s tweet, posited “the emerging dual nature of the [Leni Robredo] enterprise, as both campaign and movement”. To their credit, both men were already seemingly suggesting even back then that Robredo’s campaign was on a trajectory to failure but that it was okay because it would morph into a movement anyway that would persist post elections.
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