Quote Unquote: The Rightening of the Right

Noam Chomsky on the modern Republican Party in relation to its heroes…

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"Today, Nixon would be a flaming radical, and Dwight D. Eisenhower would be off the spectrum. Even Ronald Reagan would be on the left somewhere."

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That's all well and good, but from what I understand, this Chomsky guy still acknowledges that outdated concepts such as authoritarian states actually exist. So, I don't see why we should care what a fascist like him thinks.

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