WAKE up, folks. What we are seeing now can’t be trivialized, much less ridiculed — as Marcos’ commentariat corps have been doing — as the “Senate circus,” “zarzuela” and “telenovela.” What is happening is as serious as can be for the Republic: This president is on an all-out siege of a supposedly independent branch of government, the Senate, considered as the last bastion of a democracy, in order to continue in power in 2028.