My dad was a linguist, so he'd met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn't listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he'd say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.

Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.

That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.