Alex Soros on Why Dems Lost: We Need to Lie Better

New York Magazine has a profile of Alex Soros, the man-boy who took over George Soros’ political empire as his father declines into a shriveled version of Emperor Palpatine. 

Seriously, the resemblance is uncanny. Even in his best recent photos you can see it. If Klaus Schwab looks like a Bond Villain, Soros looks like a man dedicated to enjoying the pleasures of power the Dark Side of The Force can bring. 

If George is an evil genius, Alex is an evil dullard. It is something of a mystery why George handed his empire over to a wastrel instead of one of his other children, of which he has five. Obviously, he got the anti-natalist memo late. 

The younger Soros is famous for his self-indulgence, 

Alex’s appointment in late 2022 jarred loyalists and veteran hands in his father’s orbit. A decade ago, he gained a “Page Six”–stoked reputation for decadent Hamptons parties and stereotypical heir behavior. He follows dozens of models on Instagram

A lot of center-left people scoff when you bring up Soros, usually after they ranted about Elon Musk. They assume that we are catastrophizing and blowing his influence out of proportion. That is, of course, untrue. George and now Alex pour hundreds of millions of dollars into politics and left-wing causes every year, and even the highest-level Democrats make pilgrimages to bend the knee at a dizzying rate. 

So much so that all the photos Alex posts on Instagram are embarrassing to them–Alex collects politicians like some children collect Pokémon cards. 

Alex takes a different approach. This past August, he was all over the DNC, posting Instagram photos of himself in hotel suites or luxury boxes with Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Gretchen Whitmer, Pete and Chasten Buttigieg, Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, Keith Ellison, Eric Swalwell, Jasmine Crockett, Nancy Pelosi, Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz (for the first time), Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords, Hakeem Jeffries, Ruben Gallego, and Chris Murphy, plus shots of him and Abedin gazing fixedly at the Jumbotron of Chicago’s United Center. Below them were his boilerplate captions: “all in for Kamala who was flawless last night!”

Soros is one of the chief funders–along with USAID, of course–of all the most powerful left-wing NGOs, so when he was asked about whether the Democratic Party has lurched too far left he scoffed at the notion. 

Rather, he said, it was the Democrats’ abandonment of Biden after he revealed himself to be a vegetable that was the problem. 

Lmaooo

Alex Soros’s takeaway from 2024 was that Dems should be more “disciplined” liars https://t.co/Nm9CPf04HT

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) April 22, 2025

The problem wasn’t that Biden WAS a vegetable. Who cares, if the technocracy really runs things, why do you need anything but a figurehead? 

Democrats should have just doubled down on the “sharp as a tack” lie. Hoaxes have worked wonders for Democrats many times, and they should have kept going with one that had mostly worked up to then. 

Alex’s fondness for collecting powerful figures embarrasses people at the foundation. It also underscores his influence. OSF is by some measures the second-largest charitable foundation in the United States, trailing only the Gates Foundation. It gives out roughly $1.5 billion a year, and it spends its U.S. budget not only on liberal causes but also on some of the big dark-money nonprofits aligned with the Democratic Party, including America Votes, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and the pro-Harris spending group Future Forward USA Action. Soros Fund Management, which manages OSF’s endowment, is the largest investor in the podcast network Crooked Media, which broadcasts Pod Save America. Then there are the Soroses’ voluminous campaign contributions to Democrats, rivaled only by those from billionaires Michael Bloomberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Reid Hoffman.

Elon Musk’s influence in the Republican Party is both quite new and limited to the MAGA faction of the party. He is not indifferent to having influence–he clearly revels in it–but he has a clear purpose and an apparent indifference to the trappings of power. He is the opposite of Soros in most respects–he is a guy who works almost constantly on some project or another, and will sleep on the floor of factories or build a tiny house on the grounds of Starbase to make things happen. 

Soros doesn’t even care about his projects’ practical consequences- a city falling into ruins? Who cares? Michael Bloomberg, for all his faults, has a vision of the good and wants his investments to pan out into something more than a political win. 

There are plenty of political consultants who adopt a “win-at-all-costs” mentality, but that is because it is their business to win. One doesn’t look to them to be moral leaders or policymaking leaders–they are all about winning. 

Soros, though, provides the financial backbone not just for the Party, but demands fealty to a political and policy agenda that is deeply destructive, and obviously so. Plenty of Democrats and center-left politicos know that he is driving the party into the ground and endangering the country itself, but they feel helpless to do anything about it. 

The Soros money is an addiction, and the withdrawal would be too painful.