COMMENT | Pakatan Harapan should never play the race card, which is exactly what former attorney-general Tommy Thomas is advising Harapan to do.

Do not get me wrong, if there was a tactical advantage for Harapan to play the race card if they had the bona fides to do so, then this would be good advice.

The “ketuanan” state's casus belli for its political war has always been about race and religion, and they have been very successful at it to the extent that our political landscape is defined by it.

Before the election which saw former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad return to power, who for years was a hate figure in the oppositional Weltanschauung, Harapan political operatives were claiming that...