” Just ask any Iranian if they were totally happy with Khomeini within a few short months after his return? “
That’s the pattern with all ‘popular’ uprisings - they get coopted by budding dictators, and by the time the people realize they’re not ‘happy’, their happiness, or unhappiness, is no longer relevant....
(There is one notable exception to this rule, and one could argue that it’s happening here, too - albiet belatedly...)