Famed linguist, MIT professor and polemicist Noam Chomsky believes that Donald Trump’s success in the presidential primary is a sign that Americans feel hopeless and society is falling apart.
Chomsky made the remarks in an interview with AlterNet’s Aaron Williams.
Williams asked Chomsky to explain his opinions on the “surprising progress of Donald Trump?”
“Fear, along with the breakdown of society during the neoliberal period,” Chonsky replied. “People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.”
The longtime political observer went on to compare the current national situation to another period in the country’s history.
“It’s interesting to compare the situation in the ‘30s, which I’m old enough to remember,” he said. “Objectively, poverty and suffering were far greater. But even among poor working people and the unemployed, there was a sense of hope that is lacking now, in large part because of the growth of a militant labor movement and also the existence of political organizations outside the mainstream.”
Asked who he thought would win the election, Chomsky said, “I can express hopes and fears, but not predictions.”
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