George Soros

Your note is respectful @mattyglesias, but nonetheless it has perhaps unintentionally opened a sewer drain of awful anti-semitic tropes and innuendo that make Viktor Orban look pollyannaish. This corner of the lot thinks that @AlexanderSoros putting his support behind @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris is a great thing for the country and for #Democrats. This is transparent, up front advocacy. I think it's pretty awful that even many #HarrisWalz24 supporters want to feed into the anti-semitic Soros hysteria by telling them to stay behind the scenes. The @OpenSociety foundations and the Soros family funded much of the progressive movement in America today because @georgesoros smelled a whiff of what took over 1930s Germany - and some on the right's fetish for autocracy. I applaud that. Others can criticize it - -that's a democracy working. But the notion that Alex should stay in the background is sad and wrong-headed because it cedes ground to bigots and racists, and those who have tried to slime Soros who has done incredible work in my book trying to save open discourse, real debate, and an open society.