Tun M, you lost. Accept it!
KTemoc KonsIders
When Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad became the 7th prime minister, the country and other world leaders went euphoric. Countries around the globe suddenly saw the awakening of a ”saviour” whose mission was to save Malaysia from kleptocrats, thieves and corruption that had gangrened the country.
He was stacked with honorary awards and was shuttling universally to denounce the former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. He boasted how he made a historic comeback from retirement as there was no one capable of leading the country and that the Pakatan Harapan he captained was the ultimate answer for Malaysians.
He ran the country for 22 years earlier and thought that after a 15-year hiatus, his political resurrection by PKR, DAP, Bersatu and Amanah was a calling that was too good to pass.
But his dicing was just not working out. First, he had appointed a bunch of ministers that were overzealous. They practically rushed and shoved policies after policies that could only work in a robust and tested corporate world. Hard hitting policies and new taxes were implemented without proper collective consultation.
Mahathir’s ministers, inexperienced in public service per se, were seen and perceived as being gung-ho and autocratic; bordering arrogance and ignorance.
Second, Mahathir and team were just too obsessed in blaming everything and all on Najib for every single shortcoming that hit the country. From finance to the civil servants. They were madly and moronically fixated to the idea that as long as they keep hounding Najib and Umno, Malaysians will keep supporting them no matter what they did.
Frankly, Mahathir and his entire Pakatan team were going berserk over Najib and that actually strengthened Najib and Umno, or Barisan Nasional.
