COMMENT | What Trump's victory teaches Malaysia

COMMENT | What can Malaysians learn from Donald Trump’s presidential victory? It is this: if the Madani folks cannot deliver real reform, they too may lose.

And it will be the fault of Pakatan Harapan and their partners. Just as the Democratic Party is to blame for the defeat of Kamala Harris.

You can hate Trump all you want. Call him a conman, braggart, molester, criminal, dictator, etc to your heart’s content, but he successfully sold himself as someone who would “clean up” the rigged system, while Harris seemed “more of the same” control by the elite.

The Dems repeatedly painted Trump as a “Hitler” who will destroy democracy in America. But it was not enough to just be “against” something.

Fear and hatred alone could not bring victory - not when many working-class Americans are struggling to make ends meet and are desperate for change.

As Robert F Kennedy (RFK) Jr, the nephew of former president John F Kennedy, put it, many Americans...