George Soros’s foundation is worried that former President Donald Trump will win the 2024 election and undermine globalist “unity,” while warning of supposed harms coming from a potential “MAGA-style Republican victory” more generally.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF), which Mr. Soros’ 37-year-old son, Alex Soros now leads, is “adapting” so that it’s able to respond to whatever political scenario emerges after the dust settles from next year’s presidential election in America.
“We are adapting OSF to be able to respond to whatever scenarios might emerge, on both sides of the Atlantic,” George Soros’ son wrote in a recent op-ed for Politico headlined “No Soros retreat from Europe.”
The op-ed came in response to news headlines claiming that the Soros foundation was “retreating” from Europe as part of a new “strategic direction” under new leadership.
In it, Mr. Alex Soros (self-avowedly “more political” than his father) clarified that the rumored exit is nothing of the sort—or not exactly. He characterized the change as a shift in priorities towards Eastern Europe that would involve a retrenchment of some operations, including “significantly” reducing headcount.
However, the younger Mr. Soros also used the opportunity of the op-ed to express his views on American politics—and fret about the prospect of a Trump victory.
Trump Win to Endanger ‘Unity’?
Mr. Soros worries that a victory by President Trump—or another “MAGA-style” candidate—would endanger European unity and deliver a blow to the globalist agenda.
“Former United States President Donald Trump—or at least someone with his isolationist and anti-European policies—will be the Republican nominee,” he predicted, adding that he believes that “a MAGA-style Republican victory in next year’s U.S. presidential election could, in the end, be worse for the EU than for the U.S.”
Mr. Soros described the threat of a Trump or a “MAGA-style” Republican win in 2024 as an outcome that “will imperil European unity and undermine the progress achieved on so many fronts in response to the war in Ukraine.”
By Tom Ozimek
