Yes, I have now live long enough to see Soro become the "left wing's" boogeyman.
Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/progressive-mega-donor-funding-right-wing-ideaspast June, in London, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) convened a meeting of small publications from around the world. Editors traveled from South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. In the preceding year, the foundations, now under the chairmanship of George Soros’s son Alexander, had unleashed what felt like a flood of funding in the small-budget world of little magazines. Among the American lefty magazine luminaries drawn across the pond were The New York Review of Books editor Emily Greenhouse, Dissent coeditor Natasha Lewis, n+1 coeditor and publisher Mark Krotov, The Baffler editor in chief Matthew Shen Goodman, Jewish Currents editor in chief Arielle Angel, and Lux editor in chief Sarah Leonard. Many, but not all, of the represented publications, including The New York Review of Books, Dissent, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, and Lux, had at one time received funds from OSF.
Standing apart from the other Americans was Sohrab Ahmari, an editor of the online magazine Compact and the former op-ed editor of the New York Post. The political drift of his magazine—which The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg described as “mostly a reactionary publication with a strong authoritarian streak”—clashed with the others’. It also diverged from the central liberal tenets of OSF, which supports public spheres where discourse is unobstructed by authoritarian roadblocks. Perhaps the only thing Ahmari shared with many of the other attendees is that his magazine is a recipient of OSF funding. The tension in London was palpable.
