Donald Trump should remember the Philippines’ Ferdinand Marcos when considering his exit strategy

“Cut and cut cleanly. The time has come.”Donald Trump, the outgoing president of the United States, might do well to heed the terse advice given in February 1986 by then-senator Paul Laxalt to the autocratic Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.Like Trump, Marcos had just been beaten at the polls by his opponent Corazon Aquino, the widow drafted by the opposition after her husband and long-time Marcos rival, Benigno Aquino, was assassinated upon his return from exile in 1983.Also like Trump,…