Burning the race candle from both ends
The prime minister struggles today because he was a key progenitor for decades of upping the language on race.
Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online
Currently, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is a rock star to many.
But signs are present, indicating the shine is wearing off. Six months after the general election. And it is purely because his opponents are using his own playbook against him.
Umno’s single stroke-play
It’s the ICERD, and then again, it’s not the ICERD.
The UN convention ratification is only a smokescreen. After it dies down, they’d turn to the next race issue they can feast on, for example “alleged” reductions for Malay expenditure in the 2019 Budget. And the next, and so on.
What Umno guarantees is a commitment to be fanatical about the cause.
Winston Churchill invariably had Zahid Hamidi in mind, when he summed up the sort: “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
The stratagem is gold for the Umno president, as it stands.
It holds the nation hostage to the only issue his party thrives on, racism.
