The federal government’s inability — or unwillingness — to inspect, assess and reform the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), and its flat-footedness, incompetence and uncaringness on show during the recent flooding throughout the peninsula, took away whatever remaining doubts there had been that Malaysia does need a “reset”. That word crystallises much of the thinking circulating today about what saving Malaysia from bad leadership and waning nation-building ambitions entails.