Amnesia triumphs: How one decade undid a century of lessons


Dodgy dyad: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump at the ‘Howdy, Modi!’ rally in Houston, Texas. – AFP

I AM Malaysian. On May 9,2018, my country bucked the global trend towards authoritarianism.

At the time, a combination of anger over the 1MDB scandal and the rising cost of living resulted in an unexpected surge of anti-Najib Razak sentiment that brought 61 years of UMNO-led rule to a messy end.

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