Balance of Power: How George Soros Ended Up on Hungarian Election Billboards
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U.S. Democratic mega-donor George Soros — also a major patron of democracy in ex-communist eastern Europe — has become a political bogeyman in his native Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an anti-Muslim leader who’s promised to build an “illiberal democracy” modeled on Russia, has taken to demonizing Soros and the European Union as interlopers who have helped ruin the “old, magnificent Europe from before the time of multiculturalism.”