After five columns on the Marcos candidacy (The Marcos Maneuver, June 23, 2021; Winter is Coming, September 15, 2021; Peak Marcos? September 29, 2021; A Soft-Boiled Start to 2022, October 10, 2021; and Marcos Jr. biding his time, October 20, 2021), an effort to contextualize such candidacies in terms of broader trends over the past thirty years. That's the purpose of my column today.