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Michelle Goldberg: The American right-wingers who admire the Taliban

The distance between the sort of right-wingers who cheer for the Taliban and conservative power centers has shrunk.

(Rahmat Gul | AP) Taliban fighters display their flag on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge.