2025. Asian Politics & Policy 17 (1): 1–24. The article compares the rhetorical strategies of two of the most popular post-martial law presidents in the Philippines, Joseph Estrada (1998–2001) and Rodrigo Duterte (2016–2022). Adopting Laclau’s definition of populism and localizing De Cleen and Stavrakakis’s analysis of socio-spatial dichotomies, I examine the political logic that guided…