They're more Chavez than Madison.
David Brooks caused a firestorm last week when he questioned whether Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has “the mental equipment to govern.” Yet lately we might ask the same question about Egypt’s liberals.
Brooks was drawing on an essay by the American Interest’s Adam Garfinkle, which asserts that
A typical Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood rank-and-file type now saddled up on the gyrating entrails of the Egyptian state bureaucracy...does not accept the existence of an objective fact separate from how he feels about it, and if he should feel negatively disposed toward the fact, whatever it is, the fact can be made simply to disappear.
