of course, bongbong marcos. bongbong marcos, the son of ferdinand marcos, the former president?. translation: i would like to experience the good life that people were seeing when ferdinand marcos sr was still the president. we need to have that back. a man who knows about the marcos good life is american journalistjim laurie. he was in malacanang palace the day the family fled the country for exile in hawaii in 1986. you went into imelda's wardrobe room, and she had hundreds of designer gowns and designer dresses with the labels still on. and it was just a sense that, in a very, very poor country, it just somehow seemed obscene. more than three decades later, what laurie witnessed is repeatedly questioned online. they will say things like, "i don't believe this," "this must be doctored video from 1986," "it couldn't be true." and it does create a tremendous distortion of history and events. bongbong's biggest challenge comes from leni robredo, a politician that beat marcos jr to the vice presidency in 2016. we approached bongbong marcos for an interview and a right of reply, bu