COMMENT | Poor messaging. Ah, that's what led to the collapse of the first Pakatan Harapan government, so it was said.

For example, in Feb 2019, then-prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad noted, “We found that the people were not aware of what has been done by the government and we do not have a (mechanism) to explain.”

Four years after the Sheraton Move, how much has changed?

Not much, going by the inroads made by Perikatan Nasional in the last general and six state elections. Instead, it suggests that their narrative is gaining traction, especially in weaponising issues of race and religion.

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has also...