My column this week takes stock of Bong Go: unknown to many, he is one of the champion bureaucratic infighters of all time, and the latest in a long tradition of irreplaceable lieutenants to presidents. Why he has been seemingly check-mated in the Senate. In at least 12 previous columns I traced the story of the titanic struggle for the direction of the Duterte presidency wages between Go and his allies and Evasco and his allies.