No, he’s not the same as the old boss, if you mean Mubarak as he was from 1979 to 2011. If you mean Nasser the National Socialist, then that would be more like it.
I’m sure you’re right. My emphasis was more on the generic idea that Mubarak was too authoritarian, and so they needed “change”. [ Where have we heard that before? ]
So what they have is a new strong man, that could very easily make Mubarak look like an old softy by comparison.
Nasser was an Arab Nationalist, which meant he hated the Islamists, it was him that executed the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb.
Mursi is an Islamist puppet, and roll back what little protections Christians had while Islamizing the government.