Noam Chomsky is worried about the future of the United States. Anyone that's read his work, seen his interviews, or attended one of his lectures would know that this is nothing new. Chomsky has called America 'the biggest terrorist state' , sharply criticized the United States close relationship with Israel, and has termed himself a libertarian socialist with anarchic tendencies. Thus, the public intellectual has earned quite a bit of criticism. However, despite his fiery rhetoric and perceivably radical ideas, Chomsky seems to be conveying a message that many (or perhaps a little under half) of Americans feel. Namely, the Republican party has moved so far to the right in recent years it is practically unrecognizable. Now, after leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's controversial plans to bar all immigration to The United States from Muslim citizens has made Chomsky speak up.
The linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate told Truth Out, of Trump and the GOP, Since Ronald Reagan, the leadership has plunged so far into the pockets of the very rich and the corporate sector that they can attract votes only by mobilising sectors of the population that have not previously been an organised political force, among them extremist evangelical Christians, now probably the majority of Republican voters; remnants of the former slave-holding States; nativists who are terrified that "they" are taking our white Christian Anglo-Saxon country away from us; and others who turn the Republican primaries into spectacles remote from the mainstream of modern society - though not the mainstream of the most powerful country in world history.
He continued, "...the former [Republican] Party is now a 'radical insurgency' that has pretty much abandoned parliamentary politics, for interesting reasons that we can't go into here."
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