Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History”
Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History” By Isaac Chotine r October 30, 2020 Chomsky has always been extremely pragmatic in his political analysis, diverging from some other leftists in his belief in the necessity of voting for mainstream Democrats against Republicans. Illustration by Leonardo Santamaria; Source photograph by Heuler Andrey / AFP / Getty Noam Chomsky, the American linguist, activist, and political writer, is one of the most famous and harshest critics of American foreign policy. His critiques of Presidential Administrations from Nixon to Obama, and the stridency of his views—comparing 9/11 to Bill Clinton’s bombing of a factory in Khartoum, for example—have made him the target of much ire, as well as a hero of the global left. “Chomsky always refuses to talk about motives in politics,” Larissa MacFarquhar wrote in her Profile of him for The New Yorker, in 2003. “Like many theorists of universal humanness, he often seems baffl