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Top Trump ally Elon Musk has publicly thrown down the gauntlet to the world’s leading liberal ‘philanthropist’ and his NGOs’ color revolution-fueling soft power influence operations. Sputnik asked a leading independent political commentator what this could mean under Trump 2.0.
Open Society Foundations chairman Alex Soros has put a brave face on the losses faced by his father’s
neoliberal philanthropic empire now that Joe Biden is gone and MAGA has turned to Washington with a vengeance.
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“My father was more about how you get closed societies to become open, and my task within the foundation is how do you renew open societies from within?” Soros Jr.
told FT in an interview this week, hinting at the OSF’s plans for work in the United States in the coming four years.
A second Trump term carries substantial risks to the Soros family and ‘philanthropic’ fortunes.
With the Democrats’ exit from the White House and loss of both houses of Congress, Soros will have fewer means to influence domestic policy on issues ranging from identity politics to courts, education and online censorship.
Trump’s reelection and the failure of the Soros-backed campaign to lock him up is a major reputational blow to the Open Society Foundations, which reoriented its global focus onto US politics in 2023 but still lost.
Setbacks in the US could reverberate in Europe, toppling, undermining or crippling Soros-allied politicians. Hungary’s Viktor Orban said last week that Soros “lost the battle for America,” and his supporters must now be “squeezed out of Brussels” as well.
Musk as Antithesis of Soros?
Alex Soros also dropped hints about the seriousness of the threat posed by tech billionaire Elon Musk to his family’s fortunes. “I was open for a meeting [with Musk, ed.], I made an overture through somebody that knows him and he didn’t respond. I think he’s much more interested in trolling than meeting,” the OSF chairman said in his FT interview, referring to Musk’s references to Soros senior as a Magneto-style supervillain to Soros senior as a Magneto-style supervillain and as a “brilliant guy” who “fundamentally hates humanity.”
Musk opposes key policies pushed by Soros, from lawfare-minded DAs to censorship, and has accused him of seeking to “destroy Western civilization.”
Since Trump’s comeback, Musk has also jumped into European politics to back populist figures abhorred by Soros, from AfD in Germany to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in Britain.
“I think there are some important contrasts to draw between Musk and Soros. Soros is a financier,” veteran political commentator and former hedge fund manager Charles Ortel told Sputnik.
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