What was billed as a shot at redemption, the Marcos 2.0 regime has backfired big-time for the Marcos family.

It’s no secret that the objective of the Quadcomm investigation, and the Senate before it, is to “unmask” FPRRD as a “monster” for the death of thousands in the war on drugs during his term.

The same is true of the witch-hunt against Vice President Sara Duterte and the Office of the Vice President, which Quadcomm prejudged even before the hearings could start.

At the rate the hearings are going, they have succeeded not only in reaffirming the faith of those who supported FPRRD throughout his campaign but also in convincing some of those who opposed him then that he did right.

The biggest losers in this whole charade are not the Quadcomm members and the rest of Congress—although many of this administration's collaborators will be political rejects in the future. It is not Speaker Martin Romualdez, although he has been scarred beyond repair and might even be sacrificed to appease an increasingly restive nation.

It won’t be Senator Imee Marcos who has become a pariah, both to the Marcos camp, which considers her a traitor for “sleeping with the enemy,” and to the Duterte diehards, who blame her for feeding Vice President Inday to the wolves because it was she who pleaded with her to run with her brother.

It is not First Lady Liza Marcos who has earned so much notoriety in just over two years of her husband’s reign, enough for her to be remembered in contempt more than any presidential spouse in living memory.

It is not even President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who has been exposed as nothing more than a happy-go-lucky weakling who can afford to party when the nation is in shambles, a wimp who cannot rein his wife and his cousin.

They will all survive, if not politically or physically, unless God has other plans for the unrepentant who has used up all the chances given to them.

The biggest loser is not the Marcos family, which wasted a rare opportunity to redeem the name of their patriarch. After what BBM has done to the country, no Marcos will ever sit again in Malacañang while this generation is still alive, if at all.

And although they have to go through the fire all this time, FPRRD, VP Inday, the Duterte family, and those who remain with them no matter what will be vindicated. They will come out even stronger in contrast to the Marcos-Romualdez clique, which is virtually finished as early as this juncture.

Again, the biggest losers will be the Filipino people, who will bear the brunt of the failed policies of the BBM administration.

All is not lost, though, as the pushback starts to roll.

“I am not a Filipino for nothing!” thundered FPRRD before the Quadcomm, a declaration that has gained traction among a growing number of Filipinos who are looking at nationalism and patriotism from a new perspective.

How we act today determines the depth to which we sink — and the height that we must scale to succeed where we failed in the past.

As George Orwell wrote: “Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”