It’s obvious as the nose on your face if some moron i.e. Roberts says an Islamic dictatorship/society where people are murdered at whim, and/or girls are killed by religious zealots for going to school under orders of the head Muslim is the same as the United States, the person is an unhinged lunatic. Not even the Obama admin is at the same level of depravity as Muslim dictatorships. People who agree with the unhinged lunatic Roberts concerning that equivalence are themselves unhinged lunatics.
Roberts is not claiming equivalency, he is claiming legitimacy:
“The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy.”
That is a clear distinction.