COMMENT | Vilifying Chinese for participating in democracy

- US political scientist Larry J Sabato

COMMENT | It really does not matter if former two-time prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s arithmetic is wonky. His intent is clear.

According to him, the Chinese are to blame for the democratic process which does not give the ketuanan (supremacist) brigade total control of the country.

Keep in mind that, today, in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Madaniville, racial preoccupations of the Malay majority are not ignored.

Pakatan Harapan, when it was led by Mahathir, also did not ignore the preoccupations of the majority.

For decades under Umno/BN, the preoccupations of the majority were also not ignored. So there has never been a time when the preoccupations of the majority were ignored.

There have only been times when Malay power brokers...