Alex Soros Has Thoughts on Dems’ 2028 Prospects, Elon Musk, and “Anti-American” JD Vance

Alex Soros has an extended — lengthy — listing of Democrats he’d like to peer run for place of job 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 advised 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 absolute best situated to steer the fractured celebration going ahead is not any small factor. According to New York, the elder Soros spent $100 million on Democrats in 2024 and masses of hundreds of thousands extra on reasons they care about—cash that Alex had no small section in directing as chair of his father’s $20 billion philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, and president of his super-PAC.

What is obvious from Alex’s conversations with New York is that he has little time for the post-election day finger-pointing about Democrats shifting too a ways left. “First of all, it’s not smart after an election to go after your base,” he mentioned. “Second of all, you know, the quick takes, the hot takes—let’s see which age well.”

Alex argued that his personal celebration was once too fast to circle the wagons round forcing former President Joe Biden to bow out of the race after his disastrous debate efficiency. “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 mentioned. “That meltdown that we had publicly is a discipline problem.”

If the rest, he mentioned, it was once staking out revolutionary problems 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 mentioned. “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 celebration. He additionally took intention at MAGA global, recalling how Elon Musk used to love his tweets and as soon as advised they join 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 mentioned.

He often known as out vp JD Vance for cozying as much as the chief of Germany’s anti-immigrant celebration Alternative für Deutschland (Afd) on a seek advice from 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.”