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How vilification of George Soros moved from fringes to mainstream

Mr. Soros born into a Jewish family in Hungary, survived the Nazi occupation as a child in part by posing as the Christian godson of a govt official

George Soros
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George Soros (Photo: https://twitter.com/AFP)

Kenneth P. Vogel, Scott Shane & Patrick Kingsley | NYT Washington
Hours after he was informed last week that an explosive device had been delivered to his suburban New York home, George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor, got on a call with colleagues to discuss yet another threat: the authoritarian Hungarian government’s crackdown on a university he had founded.

The attempted attack in New York — subsequently determined to have been part of a wave of pipe bombs targeting prominent critics of President Trump — did not come up. But it was no coincidence that Mr. Soros would be facing intense opposition and threats at the same moment in two

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