Mona Eltahawy, a native of Egypt lived through the Hosni Mubarak regime which lasted almost thirty years until Egyptians took to the streets to cast their autocratic leader out. She notes the attitudes and behaviour displayed by Trump over the past few weeks is something she’s seen from other authoritarian regimes who have attempted to retain their grasp on the reins of power.
“The United States has propped up dictatorships around the world, has staged coups around the world in countless Middle Eastern and Latin American countries. Now it's finally seeing an attempted coup, much in the way that it has orchestrated in other countries.”
Whether it’s admitting in its grave mistakes not only domestically which has led to the death of Black people at disproportionate rates or the genocide of Indigenous people, Eltahawy noted that abroad Americans are not held in this high regard they see themselves having.
“People like me who come from Egypt were warning about Trump because of the things he was saying, because of the hatred that he was whipping up. So it's no shock, and it's no surprise that it led to this, that it led to an attempted coup, that it led to insurrection,”
“There is this delusional confidence in this idea that America is better than anywhere else, that America is an exceptional country, that the rules and the institutions and the Constitution and the checks and balances in America are unlike anywhere else in the world. And even on the day when we saw all of those things falling apart, even on this day, Joe Biden gets up there and says they’re better than this — no, you are not,” she said.
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