Democrats insult Trump supporters by calling them 'Taliban'

 Washington Examiner:

Now that the Taliban are going door to door, hunting and executing Afghans who worked for the United States, Democrats want everyone to know that conservatives in the U.S. are just as dangerous — or even worse.

“Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We've got our own on Capitol Hill,” CBS’s Stephen Colbert said this week, fresh from partying with the Obamas in Martha’s Vineyard.

“Their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody’s got a Taliban,” filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted last week while sharing a side-by-side comparison of the Jan. 6 rioters and Taliban militants. “They’re at their best when they confiscate the halls of power.”

MSNBC columnist Dean Obeidallah even compared abortion laws favored by conservatives, laws less restrictive than those in most European countries, to how the Taliban treat women.

“Over the last few days, the airwaves have been filled with Republicans voicing their deep concern over the rights of the women of Afghanistan," he wrote. "And yet, I have to wonder where these voices were when extremists, based on a narrow reading of their religion’s beliefs, enacted a law that forces a woman who was raped to carry the fetus of the rapist to term? That same law makes it a crime for anyone to assist that woman in trying to abort the rapist’s fetus.”

Also at MSNBC, host Joy Reid couldn’t resist using the Left’s favorite dystopian fiction to compare the Taliban and conservatives.

“This is the real-life Handmaid's Tale — a true cautionary tale for the U.S., which has our own far religious Right dreaming of a theocracy that would impose a particular brand of Christianity, drive women from the workforce and solely into childbirth, and control all politics,” she said.

Then there’s the Washington Post, which defended Twitter’s choice to ban former President Donald Trump while allowing the Taliban to keep tweeting.

“Trump’s posts for years challenged platform rules against hate speech and inciting violence," the Washington Post wrote. "Today’s Taliban, by and large, does not.”

The Taliban don’t incite violence? Really?

Taliban forces are executing “detained soldiers, police, and civilians with alleged ties to the Afghan government,” according to Human Rights Watch . Members of the terrorist organization are also reportedly going door to door in search of “traitors” who collaborated with NATO forces or the now-fallen Afghan government. Taliban hunters are also threatening the family members of suspected “traitors.”

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 What these people are revealing is their own ignorance about the motivation of Trump supporters.  They have really never tried very hard to understand their political opponents.  Instead, they have resorted to insults and treating them like mythical enemies.

See, also:

Ex-CIA director compares Trump supporters to the Taliban

Hayden is a retired US Air Force four-star general

This is what happens when you hate your political opponents instead of trying to understand why they oppose your position.  It has more traditionally been the thinking of the uneducated, but now it is coming from people who should know better.