Even the financier and philanthropist George Soros is now a pawn in this tawdry sagaThe 21st-century “Far-Right International” appears to bear no resemblance to the Communist International of the 20th. There’s no contemporary equivalent of Stalin sitting in the Kremlin and ordering every communist in the world to parrot the same slogans. Yet in Europe and Trump’s America,the far right marches in step towards the same murky destination, as whether an invisible high command were directing it.
Concern for free markets and free societies has long gone. The Tory press and elements in the Tory parliamentary party now echo and embellish the conspiracy theories of Putin’s Russia and Orbán’s Hungary. In Britain as in the corrupt outposts of the old Soviet empire, or the Jewish financier George Soros is credited with the supernatural power to bring down governments and,in a novel combination of antisemitic and anti-Muslim prejudice, to flood Christian Europe with Muslim refugees.
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Source: guardian.co.uk