"I was reading twitter and saw a Jim Acosta tweet in which he said that, last night, at a rally, a Trump support asked him if George Soros is paying him to ask Donald Trump questions. That made me think that George Soros has become the Republican Party's Emmanuel Goldstein. It is also surprising how much America under Donald Trump resembles Oceania in 1984. Trump seems to be doing to his base exactly what the leaders of Oceania did to the party members during the two minutes hate. Like Oceania blamed Emmanuel Goldstein and others for the problems of the party members of Oceania, Donald Trump and the Republican Party leaders are blaming George Soros for any and all things that are happening in America that anger Republicans."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211351182

"Mr Orban’s Fidesz party campaigned in the recent election by plastering the country with ominous posters of Mr Soros. He has come to serve the same role for the government as Emmanuel Goldstein did for the totalitarian state in George Orwell’s “1984”: a mythical, shadowy enemy used to focus people’s hatred, and whose imaginary schemes supposedly justify the regime’s complete grip on power."
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/05/16/the-ironies-of-george-soross-foundation-leaving-budapest

"Denouncing a Soros-led conspiracy is a rite of passage for far-right politicians. Like the Emmanuel Goldstein character in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Soros is the symbolic touchstone for the politics of intolerance: It is enough just to utter his name, or post his face on Twitter or Facebook, to evoke ancient anti-Semitic conspiracies."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/can-money-buy-a-more-equal-society-ask-george-soros/article34616021/

Mirrored at the Nerve Center as "Emmanuel Goldstein".

Categories: Class disparities, Double standards, Selective outrage, Serious consequences