COMMENT | In the early days of the Pakatan Harapan government of 2018, I was one of those who got carried away at the possibilities that seemed to now be open to us after 61 years of Umno rule.

It didn’t take long, however, before I realised that reformasi was not going to come in a torrent, but trickle, or maybe not at all.

In fact, it was often one step forward, one step back as the government dithered and occasionally blundered on key legislative or institutional changes.

My first scathing opinion piece came after...