Chomsky told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan that there are two issues in play regarding the recent presidential election: the “moral issue” of voting “against the greater evil” ― namely Trump ― even if you don’t like the other candidate; and the factual distinction between the candidates -- namely, the “very different” records of Hillary and The Donald.

“I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of,” said Chomsky, as reported by Huffington Post.

Chomsky also played the Hitler card, telling Hasan that the suggestion that a Trump presidency would end up being positive because he would shake up the status quo is the same thing that was said about Hitler in the 1930s. "[Trump] will shake up the system in bad ways."

See a clip from the interview in this tweet from Mehdi Hasan:

Chomsky had previously said that he would vote for Clinton if he lived in a swing state, despite his preference for socialist candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, as noted at HuffPost.

“Every Republican candidate is either a climate change denier or a skeptic who says we can’t do it,” Chomsky said. “What they are saying is, ‘Let’s destroy the world.’ Is that worth voting against? Yeah.”

Chomsky called Trump's climate change skepticism “a death knell for the [human] species” and said that Trump’s success could be attributed to his ability to appeal to “deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors like those that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war and catastrophe.”

To learn more about the influential radical Noam Chomsky, check out his profile at Discover the Networks, the Freedom Center's resource site about the left.