It may seem counterintuitive, but it's not. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wingers in the US and in many other places would be expected to be disheartened by the victory of the Taliban and Islamist fundamentalism. But in some quarters of the right wing, there is jubilation. No, they don’t have a secret brotherhood, but both the Taliban and ethnic nationalists are unhappy with liberalism, which stands defeated in Afghanistan – reason enough for all critics of liberalism to rejoice.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson, possibly the most influential right-wing voice in the US, saw the Taliban victory as a repudiation of liberal views of gender equality. “People of Afghanistan don’t actually want gender studies symposium… They don’t hate their own masculinity. They don’t think it’s toxic. They like the patriarchy. Some of their women like it too. ... we failed in Afghanistan because the entire neoliberal [sic] program is grotesque.” [https://theweek.com/fox-news/1003818/fox-news-tucker-carlson-blames-taliban-gains-on-grotesque-gender-studies]

Matt Gaetz, the controversial Florida Republican and a Trump disciple, thought the Taliban were “more legitimate than the last government in Afghanistan or the current government here.” [https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1428056066269581313?s=20]

A Twitter account (now suspended) of an alt-right group had a post in which a Taliban fighter says, “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.” [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/opinion/alt-right-taliban.html]

American far-right commentator Nick Fuentes commented in a Telegram channel message: “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.” [https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/live-afghanistan-taliban-news/card/hv1U2m0zceuobgYAiwiR]

A former network of far-right, neo-fascist ‘Proud Boys’ on Telegram showed grudging admiration for the Taliban. After criticizing their religious views, it praised their ‘achievements’: “Hard not to respect that.”

In Israel, Yoram Hazony, a leading intellectual of ‘national conservatism,’ tweeted, “What went wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan was, first and foremost, the ideas in the heads of the people running the show. Say its name: Liberalism.”

The nationalists of the West may have a horror of Islamic fundamentalism but are joined by their antipathy to the credo of equality and freedom.

Also see:

https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/inSITE-Bulletin-on-Far-Right-Extremists/insite-bulletin-on-far-right-extremists-august-18-25-2021.html