In anticipation of the slew of “2 years on” articles and tweets explaining where they were when Mubarak fell, some observations. Morsi is not Mubarak, even if the comparison is alliterative and fits conveniently into 140 characters for Twitter. Morsi made it through preliminary presidential voting in which liberal or ‘revolutionary’ candidates were beaten by a moderate Islamist candidate and Mubarak’s former spy chief. Morsi acquired more than 13 million votes, handily (although bizarrely, for some, disappointingly) beating Ahmed Shafik. That is unless you believe allegations of fraud and widespread vote rigging primarily made by, you know, Ahmed Shafik. Opposition forces now claim that Morsi’s election was invalid because they boycotted the second round of the presidential vote. If you don’t go to the…
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