🇦🇫 Afghanistan In power: RIGHT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
17
Resistance / women's rights / progressive diaspora
Governing side
RIGHT
41
Taliban / hardline Islamist establishment
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to Afghanistan political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
-8 / +13
Politicians
+76 / +93
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
August 2024
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Taliban takeover anniversary hardline rhetoric
September 2024
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Vice-and-virtue law enforcement threat rhetoric
December 2024
│
Public-punishment and stoning rhetoric spike
March 2025
│
Nowruz and cultural-crackdown rhetoric
August 2025
│
Takeover anniversary and resistance rhetoric
December 2025
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Winter moral-edict enforcement rhetoric
March 2026
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Women's-rights protest and crackdown rhetoric
June 2026
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Northern resistance clash rhetoric
August 2026
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Taliban takeover anniversary hardline and resistance rhetoric
September 2026
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Pakistani airstrikes and Taliban cross-border threat rhetoric
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology