Taliban Under The Bed

After the fall on Kabul, our elitists raced to Twitter and other forums to equate the Taliban to conservatives and Republicans in the U.S. What kind of country are we becoming, in which a significant part of it cannot, or will not, distinguish the difference between terrorism and political differences?

While so many of us were wondering just how things could have gone so wrong, even under Joe Biden, he tweeted "Their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody's got a Taliban," complete with a photo of a few of the Jan. 6 Capitol intruders.

"Late Show" host Steven Colbert, dance partner of New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, used his national forum to wonder "Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan" since "We've got our own on Capitol Hill." MSNBC's Joy Reid called the Taliban's takeover of Kabul a "True cautionary tale for the U.S., which has our own far religious right dreaming of a theocracy."

Then there's Ahmed Tharwat, host and producer of some Arab-American television show who "Writes for local and international publications." Last week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune allowed him to rant about "The American Taliban," which "Stormed the Capitol to reinstall their cult leader to office after he lost the election and launched the stop the steal movement." It was, he said, a "Hillbilly coup."

Much of the effort to link America's political right to the Taliban is nothing more than pathetic virtue signaling.

There are true believers out there, certain that either there's no difference between the Taliban and the political right in the U.S., or the differences are so small that they fall within a small margin of error.

Where are the Democrats who know it's perverse to compare the Taliban with Americans who merely think differently than they do - those "Adults" who are supposed to be back in charge in Washington? Does their silence imply that conservatives, Republicans, and Trump supporters from all political backgrounds should be treated as terrorists? Are they tacitly encouraging another James Hodgkinson, the Bernie Sanders supporter who reportedly hated conservatives and Donald Trump, and turned his antipathy into a shootout that left him dead and several wounded, including Louisiana GOP Rep. Steve Scalise? Are they not concerned that a majority of the country believes we are already fighting a cold civil war, and that it might not take much to turn it hot?

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