COMMENT | "If you're explaining, you're losing" - Pakatan Harapan should learn this American phrase when handling the Tabung Haji fiasco.

The late US president Ronald Reagan meant that justifying something with loads of details makes you look defensive and lose the battle to persuade voters.

Indeed, explaining complex financial reports about Tabung Haji to village folk can never defeat simple slogans like “the Malays are under threat from DAP”.

That's why the “master of mass Malay hypnosis”, Abdul Hadi Awang, has...