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Popularity was and continues to be heavily disputed. The citizens voted for democracy and got yet another backslide to autocracy.

• ComputerGuru 6y ago
  It’s hard to suggest with a straight face that the Sisi junta is more democratic or less autocratic than Morsi’s legitimately elected government had been, regardless of the latter’s shortcomings (not that he was there long enough to even really pass judgement). Or that Morsi was not strictly an improvement from a due democratic process perspective as compared to Mubarak’s monarch-like status.
  • alpha_squared 6y ago
    I'm not suggesting that either. I'll accept Sisi as more democratic when he actually steps down; until then, some problems, different face. Morsi was certainly there long enough to pass judgment. I'm not old enough to remember the Muslim Brotherhood, but older family members are and they were fairly concerned about their rapid political rise. I didn't share that concern at the beginning, but quickly realized the dangers of it with the theocratic bend of the newly-formed government.