Please. Give me a break.

"Revisiting Nasser’s Falsafat al-Thawra (Philosophy of Revolution, 1966) reminds us how the word thawra was used to nominally locate the agency and point of origin of the 1952 Free Officers’ coup (and thus also of their authority) with the popular anti-colonial will expressed in 1919. He wrote that the thawra undertaken by himself and his comrades was not born on July 23, 1952, but, rather “in the boiling waters of the 1919 Revolution,” thereby framing their coup-cum-revolution as the fulfillment of this most legendary of Egyptian uprisings.[7] Restated in this way, the relation of causality leading from thawra to inqilab found in Zurayq’s text turns into a popular license for the elite who seizes power in the people’s name via coup. The distinctions between thawra and inqilab, between 1919 and 1952, and between the peasants and the Free Officers, all dissolve in this narrative into one historic event crowned thawra from start to finish."  Supporters of the coup have to marshal all sorts of tortured arguments to advance their case, as if crowding of citations and quotations and a passing reference to Said and Zurayq can accord legitimacy to Sisi.  Please.  As if the description of the coup as a "revolution" is a methodological and not political choice.