In a recent interview with Australia’s ABC News, the renowned linguist and thinker Noam Chomsky offers a warning about the threat of nuclear war but maintains there’s still reason to be positive.

According to Chomsky, Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t the surprise that emerged from the 2016 election; the immense support garnered by Bernie Sanders, with a progressive agenda, was. That in itself, Chomsky argues, is reason to hope a better future might be possible.

Watch the full conversation in the video above.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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