(ALTERNATE) Abby Martin /  Institute for Public Accuracy, January 17, 2016 — The noted scholar’s take on democracy and elections in the context of American empire.

The Republican Party about 20 years ago basically abandoned any pretense of being a normal political party. In fact, the distinguished, respected conservative commentators, from the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank, like Norman Ornstein, described the Republican Party as a radical insurgency which has abandoned parliamentary politics. They just don’t want anything to happen. Their only policies are “don’t do anything” or bomb. That’s not a political party.

Source: Noam Chomsky: Electing the President of An Empire | Alternet