The far right in the United States has an intriguing attraction to the Taliban

From this point of view, the Taliban’s “legitimacy” has mostly to do with the kind of humiliation their success presents to the Biden administration and her supporters. “The far right, the far right, they’re all driven to some extent by the Taliban who are basically running roughshod over across Afghanistan, and we’re left under the leadership of a democratic president,” Mustafa Ayyad of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which tracks extremist groups, told New York. Times columnist Michelle Goldberg.