In a twist fit for UNDAS (day of the dead), DDS loyalists are lamenting the “death” of their movement’s spirit—only for it to be miraculously resurrected by none other than Rodrigo Duterte himself. 

DDS blogger Mark Anthony Lopez announced this macabre revival after Duterte’s Senate appearance on the war on drugs, calling it a rebirth of their once “dead” devotion. 

How poetic, right? Like zombies clawing their way out of the political graveyard, the DDS has apparently found its second wind. Perhaps Duterte’s Senate cameo was the undead jolt they needed, summoning forth ghosts of the movement’s peak years. UNDAS, after all, is a time to remember the dead, even if some can’t seem to stay buried. But let’s just hope this revival doesn’t drag us back to the graveyard of authoritarian nostalgia. 

For now, though, the DDS seems to have found its Halloween costume: a zombie movement in need of a new crusade.