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Wendy Siegelman
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The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros - working to elect Hungary's Orbán in '08 George Birnbaum & Arthur Finkelstein helped create largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, by @HNSGR

*Birnbaum was involved in talks w/Rick Gates & Psy-Group
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
George Birnbaum was a key intermediary between Psy-Group and Rick Gates in discussions related to proposal for social media manipulation for the Trump campaign
Clarification to top tweet👆🏼while Finkelstein & Birnbaum met Orbán in 2008 and worked on his re-election by targeting “the bureaucrats” & “foreign capital” the full campaign targeting Soros as an enemy started in 2013 when Orbán was Prime Minister, 9 months ahead of next election
A few highlights from this excellent article by @HNSGR

Arthur Finkelstein helped reinvent political consulting starting in the 1960s working for Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan (& Trump briefly in mid-2000s) - he leveraged fear & focused on drugs, crime, race
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
Finkelstein's method is like "a how-to guide for modern right-wing populism" He believed it's "easier to demoralize people than to motivate them...the best way to win is to demoralize your opponent’s supporters" & "Every campaign needs an enemy to defeat"
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
Finkelstein's protégé Birnbaum said "The perfect enemy is one that you can punch again and again and he won't punch back." and "If Soros had struck back, it would have just played into their hands, confirming that he had power and influence"
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
Birnbaum is proud of his work “Soros was a perfect enemy. It was so obvious. It was the simplest of all products, you just had to pack it and market it”

They turned Soros into a meme that right-wing sites like Breitbart or Russia Today could simply adopt
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
While Orbán’s campaign against Soros never used the word Jew, it was often implicit - he told people they'd have to fight against an “enemy” who was “different” who didn’t have a “home”

(what a terrible legacy for Finkelstein & Birnbaum to leave behind)
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
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