Kristol is still optimistic that somehow Egypt can turn into a democracy if the people can summon another 2011 revolution or make it to another election. Krauthammer on the other hand says hope in democracy in the first place was hopelessly romantic and now that Morsi is performing a coup d’etat, that once he becomes a dictator he won’t relinquish it. Kristol seems to think that’s a little too fatalistic for his tastes but Krauthammer argues that history is on his side.
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