“We have put in our best effort and delivered the best. Maybe the weaknesses came from me.”

- Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh

COMMENT | DAP's original sin is that they have never been treated as equal partners, and they know it. This means that the non-Malay community has never been treated as equal partners.

At the state level, DAP has fared better, meaning as far as establishment politics are concerned, the party has managed to govern or co-govern states way better than the Malay uber alles crowd has ever done.

This is because the intersection between commercial interest, communal preoccupations, and economic sustainability muted the excesses of the race and religion crowd.

Here’s the thing. I am not the guy who thinks that corruption is the existential threat facing this country. I am the guy who thinks that religious extremism is the existential threat facing this country.

However...