On Morsi's Opponents
Morsi’s
opponents in the “National Salvation Front” have garnered plenty of criticism
for being obstructionists, sore losers, or bad faith interlocutors, depending
on who’s leveling the charge. My own view is that their fault is more basic
than that, having to do with their half-baked idea of what a political
opposition is. Effective opposition doesn’t mean stomping one’s foot like a
toddler and rejecting everything that comes from the government. It means keeping
tabs on officials and informing citizens of their misdeeds. Above all, it means
persuading the public that the opposition can do better at running things than
the government.
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