[Newspoint] With a President like Duterte, who needs disasters? His reign has been, indeed, the most disastrous since Ferdinand Marcos’ – a veritable reign of murder, corruption, repression, and militarization, all of which he has managed without having to declare martial law, as Marcos did Natural disasters are always a challenge to leadership, and the last typhoon, Odette, has been a particularly tough one, not only for the colossal costs it has exacted in lives, livelihoods, and property, but for its timing: she visited at Christmastime. To Vice President Leni Robredo, empathetic leadership seems to come so naturally it is easily recognized: disaster strikes, and she’s there among the sufferers, inspiring philanthropy and volunteerism, which is just as well: being from the opposition, she has been shut out of Duterte’s gang-oriented presidency, deprived of that customary Cabinet portfolio and its corresponding budget. But the way she is – competent, resourceful, credible, trustworth