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The irony of this piece is that the morons who think they are making a statement regarding Trump by reference to Chomsky - that Chomsky himself wrote in detailed fashion in, ‘The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism’(initially couldn’t get a publisher in the US had to go to Canada) how the establishment media and corporate America work hand in hand in exploiting for cheap labour and propping up 3rd world dictatorships (or any dictatorships for that matter, Chicoms, etc.). They themselves, not Trump, are the aiders and abetters of fascism and exploitation all the while exporting manufacturing and industry out of the U.S.

Some have suggested Chomsky is a libertarian socialist (he himself has stated he is), others an anarchist. The reality is that his criticisms of the establishment media and corporate cheap labour America are equally applicable to the purveyors of the attacks on Trump.

But the reality is that this piece primarily attacks the Democratic Party:

“Bill Clinton, for his part, destroyed welfare, deregulated Wall Street, worsened the growing mass incarceration crisis, and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, a sweeping deal that harmed millions of workers, in the United States, Mexico, and elsewhere.

Today, President Obama, in partnership with congressional Republicans, is lobbying aggressively for the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has been deemed by critics “NAFTA on steroids.” The agreement, if made the law of the land, will encompass 40% of global GDP and will grant massive companies unprecedented power.”

Some of these comments are caricatures but have grains of truth:

“Democrats, in short, have left the working class in the dust, often using “the excuse,” as a recent New York Times editorial put it, “that they need big-money backers to succeed.”

Republicans, meanwhile, as Chomsky has observed, are “dedicated with utter servility” to the interests of the wealthy, and their party, with its longing for war and denial of climate science, “is a danger to the human species.””

The GOPe has certainly gone down the road noted in the latter but Chomsky’s “denial of climate science” is just stupid leftist clap-trap.

I would have thought the empty-suited charismatic figure referenced to in the last paragraph was applicable to Obama though. It has no reference to Trump.