From the article: "Washington inadvertently would be sending a message to Muslim youth that the democratic process and peaceful participation in electoral politics are a sham, which could damage American national security and credibility in many Muslim countries."
This is, of course, exactly why our #IslamophobeInChief did it.
In fairness, of course, our shortsighted coolness toward the Brotherhood's embrace of democratic participation (see, for example, backing Al-Sisi's coup in Egypt) has been self-defeatingly proving the extremists' point--on both sides of the aisle--FOR DECADES, flushing the #narrative wins that folks like Emile Nakhleh and I devoted much of our lives to right down the (newly gold-plated) shitter....
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-designation-problematic