Many on FR have a similar opinion of George Soros.
They expended the effort to Emmanuel Goldstein the Koch Brothers to the point that liberals really think they are magical demonic gods controlling the universe.
Many on FR have a similar opinion of George Soros.
The difference is I don’t see the Koch Brothers trying to manipulate nations into going to war for profit or funding the AntiChrist to destroy a nation. That’s just for starters. Soros is on a whole different level and is inherently and truly evil.
I agree that he is positioned as the ying to the Koch Brothers yang, but I think the whole Koch brothers brouhaha was intentionally created as a counter balance to the exposure of Soros' political machinations. He was trying to mask his political contributions from public scrutiny through foundations, but when he was exposed they needed a rightwing boogie monster to point at.
And generally, there's more evidence of evil doing by Soros, like intentionally manipulating currency markets to enrich himself at the expense of entire nations or his conviction for insider trading.
But he has no more megalomaniacal magic than the Koch brothers, he's just a world-class a-hole.