Noam Chomsky on the GOPs trump/ led insurgency

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The efforts to "overthrow democracy"
Trump and his followers have "basically taken over the Republican Party," Chomsky told Al Jazeera's "UpFront"

By ALEX HENDERSON
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 2022 4:30AM (EST)
US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky (EULER ANDREY/AFP via Getty Images)
US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky (EULER ANDREY/AFP via Getty Images)
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This article originally appeared on AlterNet.

Over the years, leftist author and political activist Noam Chomsky has been vehemently critical of both the GOP and the Democratic Party. But in recent years, Chomsky, now 93, has been stressing that at least the Democratic Party still believes in democracy — while the Trumpified Republican Party has been moving in a dangerously authoritarian direction. And Chomsky had no kind words for the GOP during a recent appearance on Al Jazeera's "UpFront."

"UpFront" host and fellow Philadelphia native Marc Lamont Hill, noting all of the voter suppression laws being pushed by Republicans in 2021 and 2022, asked Chomsky, "Do we have a real democracy here in the United States?" And Chomsky responded, "We have a mixed form of democracy. In some respects, the United States is quite advanced. I don't think there's any country that protects freedom of speech to the extent that the United States does."

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1. At least Chomsky does realize the roaring in his ears and rumbling under his feet

are from an onrushing force from the right. That must be stopped, or else. That makes him exceptionally clear-eyed and focused for those viewing from the far left. Many have always been incapable of, and simply not interested in, looking past the evils represented by the Democratic Party to the enormous threats from the right.

Imagine, the "lesser evil" of the Democrats actually now seen as a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH lesser evil. Of course, look what it took to accomplish that modest shift in a skewed paradigm...

Anyway, this reminds me of his previous statement that the Republican Party had become “the most dangerous organization in human history." That really wasn't at all as outrageous as it initially sounded. The American RW has played a huge role in holding the entire planet back from stopping climate change, and are determined to continue, and RW powers are have been working to destroy the rights and wellbeing of 330 million people to shift power and wealth to a few.

2022's critical elections are already begun. Either Democratic OR Republican majorities will be put in control of many governments next year. AR, OK, and WA have elections today, more coming now every week. Hopefully those who view politics through a similar prism will listen to him and look beyond Democrats to understand the enormous threat of the RW "radical insurgency," to them personally as well as to their goals for our nation. And what to do about it.