“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

COMMENT | To stop PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim from becoming prime minister, the charlatans who make up the current government brought down a democratically elected government. There is more to it than that, of course, but stopping Anwar is the official narrative. It is the acceptable narrative because it means that this was about personality, rather than about "ketuanism" (supremacism).

The far-right and agents of the fascist state have been gleefully retelling how PAS, for instance, was used to troll Pakatan Harapan and sow mistrust in an attempt to make this coup out as something that happened organically, instead of a sustained plan to attack the democratic process and bring down a federal government.

Talking heads and so-called pundits are now “evaluating” this cabinet as if they were a product of a legitimate democratic process instead of the unholy by-product spewed forth by plotters who brought down a government. This is not a government of consensus, but rather a government of connivance.

Some folks say that we should put aside our partisan bickering and look objectively at the situation. Give this new government a chance, they say. First off, if the current prime minister survived a no-confidence vote, then this would have been an acceptable outcome to this fiasco. Forget about what brought us to this place. The fact that the current prime minister went through the democratic process and legitimately assumed power would have been the first “good” move this regime did.

Secondly, I have no idea what Perikatan Nasional (PN) stands for...