Yeah, that's a fair comparison. I would say Chomsky is more like a left-wing version of Bannon than he is the analogue of the people I originally thought we were talking about, which is the truly heinous underbelly of the right, who commit murder and hate crimes. So by that standard, I agree. Though I would add the caveat that I think this could be an area where the left's crazy train is lagging a few years behind the right's, but given its current heading, will get there eventually. I also obviously don't think much of your conflation of people who say things that evil people latch onto with those evil people, for a number of reasons, but I think we've disagreed in the past on that.
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