Egypt's Deep State

Egyptians have just finished voting for a new president. This is the first time in thousands of years of history that they have done so without knowing in advance who would win.

We still don’t know who won. The ballots haven’t been counted. (I assume, as do most analysts, that ballots really are being counted.) Since Islamists won two-thirds of the parliamentary vote last year, it’s safe to assume that whoever wins this will also be an Islamist, but we’ll see.

Either way, it’s not terribly like...