Non-Malay power structures have been complicit in the spread of Malay supremacy and the erosion of secular norms.
What destroyed the MCA was not DAP’s propaganda but the acceptance by a large voting demographic of the Chinese community that no representation in the government is better than MCA representation.
While MCA has a record of accomplishment to fall back on, the same cannot be said of MIC. The latter is a testament to the fact that the Indian community is estranged from mainstream politics because MIC has been derelict (I would argue criminally so) in its duties.
Keep in mind that for decades, the non-Malays voted for BN and demonised the opposition using pragmatism as a...