Not the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Not the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Not the Khmer Rouge. Not the Islamic State. No, none of them are “the most dangerous organization in world history.” That honor, as far as Noam Chomsky is concerned, belongs to the Republican Party of the United States.

This is the kind of hysterical rhetoric that is inciting the anti-Trump riots. Democrats are behaving as if Satan himself (or Hitler, with whom, as they always do with those they hate, they’re actively likening Trump) were about to become President of the United States, and their witless ground troops are believing them.

Chomsky is serious, however: he says that the claim that the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in world history “may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The facts suggest otherwise. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.” Because many Republicans reject the theory of global warming, they’re the most dangerous organization in world history. It isn’t even proven, and yet for Chomsky it’s the central dogma, and all who dissent from it are the summit of evil.

This ridiculous hyperbole and sky-is-falling rhetoric is why people are fed up with the political and media elites: they’re squandering their political capital and moral authority on outlandish and baseless demonizing of those who dissent from their line, and what they’re doing is increasingly obvious to the general public.

“Noam Chomsky: ‘The Republican Party Has Become the Most Dangerous Organization in World History,'” by C.J. Polychroniou, TruthOut, November 14, 2016: