"As president, that popularity could enable el-Sissi to push through potentially controversial changes. In unpublished footage from an interview with an Egyptian newspaper that was recently leaked, for example, he talks of lifting subsidies on food and fuel "all of a sudden." The subsidies are a gigantic drag on the government budget that economists agree must be reformed — but since Egypt's impoverished population relies on them, attempts at reform has repeatedly fallen apart. (The comments also point to how Nasser comparisons only go so far: El-Sissi has expressed support for faster privatization in the economy, reversing Nasser's socialist legacy.)"

The world is a strange and complicated place.
It can be figured out but you gotta be able to see the nuances.

Would that we had a military strongman to vote for!