Chomsky
also said that white supremacy played an important role in the rise
of Trump as white nationalists fear the decline of their power
The
Democratic Party in the U.S. is to blame for Donald Trump's
presidential victory after failing for decades to appeal to the white
working class in the country and instead feeding into the neoliberal
tendencies of the corporate elite, renowned political thinker and
linguistic professor Noam Chomsky said in an interview with Truthout
Monday.
The
exit polls and post-election data show that the majority of Trump
voters are “the angry and disaffected” white working
people who “are victims of the neoliberal policies of the past
generation,” Chomsky said.
He
further drew similarities with British people who voted to leave the
European Union after a xenophobic, anti-refugee campaign by the far
right.
Trump
voters also “share the anger throughout the West at the centrist
establishment, revealed as well in the unanticipated Brexit vote and
the collapse of centrist parties in continental Europe,” he
said.
The
prominent political commentator further slammed the Democratic Party
for “abandoning any real concern for working people by the
1970s,” and therefore letting them be victims of the
manipulation of the likes of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Chomsky
also said that white supremacy played an important role in the rise
of Trump as white nationalists fear the decline of their power due to
figures that suggest that whites will soon be the minority in the
U.S. and will lose their dominance as the country’s majority
population.
Some
people followed Trump because for them he represented “change,”
while his opponent Hillary Clinton represented the status quo and
“the policies that were feared and hated,” he added.
But
the change the real estate billionaire promised was not clearly
delivered to the public because the media complied with his
campaign's successful attempt to steer clear of elaborating on
proposals for change, Chomsky stressed.
The
linguists said that his biggest worry after election day was the
future of the planet with the threat of climate change.
Calling
the Republican Party “the most dangerous organization in world
history,” he warned that with it controlling all of
Washington’s branches of government and with it being an advocate
of the fossil fuel industry, the world is headed towards “destruction
of organized human life.”
On
foreign policy, he hoped that the mutual admiration between Trump and
Russian President Vladimir Putin would mean the “reduction of
the very dangerous and mounting tensions at the Russian border.”
He also said that European leaders might distance themselves from
Trump’s White House and thus also seek to work with Moscow on an
integrated security system away from NATO.
But
regarding military interventions around the world by the U.S.,
Chomsky said, “Trump is too unpredictable. There are too many
open questions. What we can say is that popular mobilization and
activism, properly organized and conducted, can make a large
difference.”
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