“Over my two weeks in the Philippines in April, hitting more than a dozen big and small cities from the northern tip to the southern edge, I spoke to scores of people — vendors, farmers, professors, drivers, politicians, cops, writers, business owners, lawyers, dentists — and nearly all of them, even those who voted against him, said they believe that their president is making the country better.” Buzzfeed’s Albert Samaha goes back to visit his family farm in the Philippines “to try to understand why they — and most of the country — have rallied around a president most Westerners see as a violent, dangerous despot.”