studio i caught up with markos moulitsas and i first asked him if the qualities that he attributes to the right wing like the desire for control militarization resorting to violence to make sure that your goals are met why it is that he picked the taliban and nazi hitler to show them perhaps does he think the taliban will get more of a reaction these days. the reason i chose the taliban is because as a progressive i've spent the last nine years since nine eleven hearing from conservatives that i want the terrorists to win every time we try to do anything from from try to end the wars to try to stop the explosion of the surveillance state to push back on erosions of hebrews corpus these conservatives say well you want islamic fundamentalists to win you want the jihad is to and that has always been pretty pretty ludicrous for the reasons that i detail in this book american taliban things like their militarism their fetishisation of guns their hostility towards women equality i hated of gay. yes and their sort of distrust of science and education in their bizarre hangups about sex so all