*Birnbaum was involved in talks w/Rick Gates & Psy-Group
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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
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They turned Soros into a meme that right-wing sites like Breitbart or Russia Today could simply adopt
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(what a terrible legacy for Finkelstein & Birnbaum to leave behind)
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