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   Most right-wingnut knuckle-draggers do.   
      
      
   The Right-Wingers Who Admire the Taliban   
      
   By Michelle Goldberg   
   Aug. 27, 2021, 7:04 p.m. ET   
      
   As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in August, a Gen Z alt-right group ran   
   a Twitter account devoted to celebrating their progress. Tweets in Pashto   
   juxtaposed two laughing Taliban fighters with pictures meant to represent   
   American effeminacy. Another said, the words auto-translated into English,   
   “Liberalism did not fail in Afghanistan because it was Afghanistan, it failed   
   because it was not true. It failed America, Europe and the world see it.”   
      
   The account, now suspended, was just one example of the open admiration for the   
   Taliban that’s developed within parts of the American right. The influential   
   young white supremacist Nick Fuentes — an ally of the Arizona Republican   
   congressman Paul Gosar and the anti-immigrant pundit Michelle Malkin — wrote   
   on   
   the encrypted app Telegram: “The Taliban is a conservative, religious force,   
   the   
   U.S. is godless and liberal. The defeat of the U.S. government in Afghanistan   
   is   
   unequivocally a positive development.” An account linked to the Proud Boys   
   expressed respect for the way the Taliban “took back their national religion   
   as   
   law, and executed dissenters.”   
      
   “The far right, the alt-right, are all sort of galvanized by the Taliban   
   essentially running roughshod through Afghanistan, and us leaving underneath a   
   Democratic president,” said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the   
   Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank   
   devoted to countering violent extremism. They’re looking at Afghanistan, he   
   said, “from a standpoint of us getting ‘owned,’ in the parlance of the   
   internet.”   
      
   This is not the first time that right-wing American extremists have been   
   inspired by Muslim militants; several white supremacists lauded Al Qaeda’s   
   attacks on Sept. 11. The difference now is that the far right has grown, and   
   the   
   distance between the sort of right-wingers who cheer for the Taliban and   
   conservative power centers has shrunk.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/opinion/alt-right-taliban.html   
      
   Right-wingnuts support the Taliban.  Their criticism of President Biden is a   
   joke.   
      
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