There’s a distinct sense of “back to the future” in the new enthusiasm for Egyptian military rule among former democracy promoters. But the idea that we can run back to the warm, stabilizing embrace of authoritarianism is a delusion. Those supporting the Egyptian crackdown “just [don't] understand how the region, and how Egypt specifically, has changed,” said Michael Hanna, a Middle East analyst, at the Century Foundation. “Repressive stability is no longer stabilizing.” What tragedy will it take for us to re-learn that lesson?
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