Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, philosopher, and historian, found President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory to be eerily similar to Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies.
While speaking at the 20th anniversary party for internet news site Democracy Now!, Chomsky told spectators that watching the election results come in brought up memories of listening to Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies as a young boy.
Chomsky found “special personal resonance” in spending election night in Barcelona, as he had written his first published article on the city’s fall to dictator Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. In the article, he wrote about:
“…The apparently inexorable spread of fascism over Europe and maybe the whole world.”
The New Nuremberg Rallies
He felt disturbing similarities to this topic as he watched the United States vote the bigoted and dangerous Donald Trump into the highest office in the country:
“I’m old enough to have been able to listen to Hitler’s speeches, the Nuremberg rallies, not understanding the words, but the tone and the reaction of the crowd was enough to leave indelible memories. And watching those results come in did arouse some pretty unpleasant memories, along with what is happening in Europe now, which, in many ways, is pretty frightening as well.”
In that quote he also alludes to the recent “Brexit” fiasco that has changed the face of the European Union and left the people of the United Kingdom wondering how they let things get so out of hand.
Chomsky also stated that he thinks Trump supporters would be likely to vote Democrat again if the Bernie Sanders movement offers a definitive plan for “hope and change.” It appears that he sees the recent election of Donald Trump as a rejection of the establishment, rather than an acceptance of the Republican Party.
Watch the video below to see Noam Chomsky and Harry Belafonte discuss Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, the KKK, and more…
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