Blind support of the government and ignoring public sentiment leads to a voter backlash. When will the DAB learn?

The pro-establishment camp’s huge losses in Hong Kong’s district council elections should not have been a shock. Pro-establishment parties were, by and large, resigned to their “fate”. They have fully accepted and even embraced the fact that they end up paying for the government’s wrongs. It was thus in 2003. So, why would it be any different in 2019? In 2003, the Democratic Alliance for the Bette