{"id":367269,"date":"2018-06-29T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-interview-with-noam-chomsky-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:06:47","slug":"an-interview-with-noam-chomsky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-interview-with-noam-chomsky-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With Noam Chomsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With its spate of right-wing rulings this week, the Supreme Court has paved the way for Donald Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress to intensify their attacks on human rights, workers and the country\u2019s democratic institutions, dragging the US deeper into the abyss.<\/p>\n<p>US political culture has long been dominated by oligarchical corporate and financial interests, militarism and jingoism, but the current Trumpocracy represents a new level of neoliberal cruelty. Indeed, the United States is turning into a pariah nation, a unique position among Western states in the second decade of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>What factors and the forces produced this radical and dangerous shift? How did Trump manage to bring the Republican Party under his total control? Is Trumpocracy a temporary phenomenon, or the future of American politics? Is the Bernie Sanders phenomenon over? In the exclusive Truthout interview below, world-renowned scholar and public intellectual Noam Chomsky, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at MIT and currently Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, tackles these questions and offers his unique insights.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"\">C.J. Polychroniou: Noam, while many in the country and the world at large watch aghast as Donald Trump\u2019s nightmare of white supremacy continues to unravel the United States, it still remains something of a puzzle as to what propelled Trumpism\u00a0to political prominence. For starters,\u00a0why did voters turn to Trump? Who are the people that make up his hard-core base, and how do we explain the fact that he has essentially taken over the Republican Party without any serious opposition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Noam Chomsky:<\/strong> Part of the solution to the puzzle is Obama\u2019s performance in office. Many were seduced by the rhetoric of \u201chope\u201d and \u201cchange,\u201d and deeply disillusioned by the very early discovery that the words had little substance. I don\u2019t usually agree with Sarah Palin, but she had a point when she ridiculed this hopey-changey stuff. A fair number of Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-anatomy-of-trumpocracy-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its spate of right-wing rulings this week, the Supreme Court has paved the way for Donald Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress to intensify their attacks on human rights, workers and the country\u2019s democratic institutions, dragging the US deeper into the abyss. US political culture has long been dominated by oligarchical corporate and financial interests, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}