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i have a real problem with george soros ideology and using his wealth to project that throughout the world. george soros set up an open society foundation in hungary in the late 1980s, supporting young democrats including, at that time, viktor orban. but orban s growing interest in an illiberal democracy increasing clashed with soros vision of a liberal one. but soros, like birnbaum and finkelstein, was jewish. identifying soros as an enemy in a country from which more than half a millionjews were deported and murdered in the second world war risked replacing the demons of the past with the demons of the present. the new threat, according to orban, came from muslim migrants, brought into europe, however implausibly, by another outsider, a jew. although birnbaum stopped working for orban in 2015, and finkelstein
elections are about, and the people who turn out, are the ones who are the most energised to turn out. and the ones who are most energised to turn out are the extremists, and part of the problem of polarisation i think is forcing people who normally would make good candidates for office stay out of the electoral process altogether, because they do not want to be a part of what is going on. so i think polarisation, in the sense that it exists today, at least in the us and some other countries, is very dangerous for democracy. i am not in favour of that at all. if trump wins the republican nomination, would you work for him? no. why not? first of all, i have no desire to work in american politics, and i also do not know that. i learned this from arthur finkelstein. electing a president of the united states is a very serious business, and it affects millions of people, notjust
george birnbaum may be one of the most influential people in the world you have never heard of, a sought after political consultant who has helped a string of world leaders to power. benjamin netanyahu, viktor orban, as well as a serbian president, an austrian chancellor, and prime ministers in romania, the czech republic, bulgaria and even the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko. politically conservative with a strong sense of his jewish identity, he joined forces with arthur finkelstein in the 1990s. finkelstein was famous for making liberal a dirty word for many in america. a brilliant mathematician who liked to crunch electoral numbers. while george birnbaum worked on the campaign strategy. their first big joint success was benjamin netanyahu s surprise victory in israel in 1996 against the strong favourite.