Dr. Jack Goldstone

Everybody was in the streets cheering that he was gone.

And then they had to decide, okay, who's going to run Egypt now?

There were only two organized groups that were really prepared to step in with popular support.

One was the military, which had huge networks of economic operations throughout the country.

The other was the Muslim Brotherhood, which had been organizing underground and had big social welfare networks that they'd created in the villages.

They had an election.

And the Brotherhood and the military both got about a quarter of the vote.

The Brotherhood came out ahead.

And once in power, this was the first democratically elected government in the history of Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood started operating like they were a religious, God-inspired government that could do whatever they want.

And that was seen with distress by so many people that they called for the army to come back and take power and kick the brotherhood out.

So you had a very popular counter-revolution there because of the way the first revolutionary party governed.

So there's a successful counter-revolution.

Now, what happens in a country like America, if you have a government that starts to act like a revolutionary government, says, you know, the laws are not that important.

We can deal with them.

What's important is to set things right the way we see them.

We're going to stop crime.

We're going to

shield our industries by putting up high tariffs.

Well, okay, if these things are unpopular, what do you do?

You could say, just like Egypt, oh, well, people should call on the military to overthrow this unpopular government.