Alex Soros has a protracted — lengthy — record of Democrats he’d wish to see run for workplace in 2028.
“Josh Shapiro is great. AOC is great. You know, Raphael Warnock is great. You know, Gretchen Whitmer is great. I mean, I like Tim Walz. Chris Murphy. Brian Schatz. Like, these guys are great,” he told New York Magazine in a sweeping new profile.
As the son of the liberal billionaire (and rightwing boogeyman) George Soros, Alex’s view on who’s finest positioned to guide the fractured occasion going ahead isn’t any small factor. According to New York, the elder Soros spent $100 million on Democrats in 2024 and a whole bunch of tens of millions extra on causes they care about—cash that Alex had no small half in directing as chair of his father’s $20 billion philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, and president of his super-PAC.
What is evident from Alex’s conversations with New York is that he has little time for the post-election day finger-pointing about Democrats transferring too far left. “First of all, it’s not smart after an election to go after your base,” he stated. “Second of all, you know, the quick takes, the hot takes—let’s see which age well.”
Alex argued that his personal occasion was too fast to circle the wagons round forcing former President Joe Biden to bow out of the race after his disastrous debate performance. “The fact of the matter is that if Donald Trump had gone on that debate stage and, you know, shit his pants and had a heart attack, Republicans would still be there saying, ‘Yeah, he’s our guy,’” he stated. “That meltdown that we had publicly is a discipline problem.”
If something, he stated, it was staking out progressive points like police reform within the wake of George Floyd’s homicide that helped clinch the 2020 race for Democrats. “The George Floyd protests may have been the reason that Joe Biden won the 2020 election,” he stated. “It galvanized people to vote; it’s maybe why we won Georgia.”
But Alex didn’t simply reserve his hearth for naysayers in his personal occasion. He additionally took purpose at MAGA world, recalling how Elon Musk used to love his tweets and as soon as steered they meet up, earlier than blowing him off. “We both used to believe in civil liberties; now, he’s against them. He used to be a believer in climate change; now, he’s against it,” Alex stated.
He additionally known as out vp JD Vance for cozying as much as the chief of Germany’s anti-immigrant occasion Alternative für Deutschland (Afd) on a go to to Munich, the place he snubbed Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “In my view, Vance is anti-American,” he said. “He’s against America. You know, at least the America that defeated Hitler, the America that desegregated.”
The story is laden with other juicy palace intrigue about how 39-year-old Alex wound up taking the reins of Open Society, rather than his older brother Jonathan Soros. One former Foundation official compared him to Succession’s Roman Roy: “Smart but fucking impossible and not particularly interested in the details.”
