NOAM CHOMSKY ON WHY TRUMP IS A TINPOT DICTATOR
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 August 2020
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Is there a move towards fascism in the US? The Democrats are split, but it is the Republicans have gone way off the spectrum toward neo-fascism. Professor Noam Chomsky explains why...
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:20.0 | And on the line with us is Professor Noam Chomsky. |
| 0:23.2 | He's currently the Lariat Professor of Linguistics |
| 0:25.9 | at the University of Arizona. |
| 0:27.1 | Previously at MIT, the Institute Professor |
| 0:29.7 | of Linguistics Emeritus, |
| 0:31.4 | author of numerous books, including optimism over |
| 0:34.0 | despair on capitalism, empire, and social change. His latest project is |
| 0:39.0 | author in a chapter in the book Turnout, mobilizing voters in an emergency |
| 0:43.1 | Chomsky. info is his website and Professor Chomsky |
| 0:46.9 | welcome to our program first of all thanks so much for joining us today |
| 0:50.3 | I hope all is well with you. Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. I'm curious your thoughts |
| 0:56.1 | on the movement toward fascism in the United States. If you want to share with us your |
| 1:02.2 | understanding of an operational |
| 1:03.8 | definition of fascism and to what extent our overall political systems and |
| 1:09.7 | our two major political parties are moving in that direction and why? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, first of all, it's not the two political parties. |
| 1:18.0 | The Democrats are pretty much what they used to be. |
| 1:22.0 | They're split between kind of a Clintonite establishment, |
| 1:26.7 | which is not very different for what used to be called |
| 1:30.4 | moderate Republicans, and a popular base base which is much of it under the Sanders |
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