Mr. Soros recognized the dark irony of his position 22 years ago: By using his limitless money to promote wide-open political freedom, he has also empowered those who use his image to promote its opposite.

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Maybe I'm reading into things, but is Saunders implying that wide-open political freedom is a bad thing? I know that freedom of speech is being denounced these days by the identity politics left as a threatening right-wing value. Is Saunders taking it one step further and denouncing free and open politics as a threat?