And not by accident, either

((At this point, Soros is just one of many, and is more a symbol of, or shorthand for, the entire Cloward-Pliven destructors*. That’s bad news.)

George Soros wrecked American criminal justice — one leftist DA at a time

This week a Washington Post puff piece leaped to the defense of the progressive district attorneys propelled into office by the campaign cash of billionaire George Soros, portraying these prosecutors as well-meaning reformers besieged by racist Republicans.

But while Soros’ left-wing fans thrill to the way his funding has fundamentally transformed criminal justice across America, here’s what they won’t acknowledge: The results have been disastrous.

Through both direct and indirect donations, Soros has poured money into a staggering number of DA races across the country.

By 2023, progressive prosecutors had jurisdiction over at least 20% of the US population, and half of Americans living in its biggest cities, reports Matt Palumbo in his book “The Heir.”

Soros-funded district attorneys have won in Tampa Bay, Denver, Orlando, Northern Virginia, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philly, St. Louis, Dallas and many others; 126 of them have held office at some point, per the Media Research Center.

Over the past decade, Soros’s Justice and Public Safety PAC alone has spent money in at least 62 primary and general elections, according to the WaPo report, winning 77% of the time — without having to lay out much to tilt those typically low-spending local elections.

But the key point isn’t the size of Soros’ investment in each race; it’s the frequency of his involvement and its nationwide reach.

Back in 2016, Politico wrote of Soros’ “quiet overhaul of the US justice system,” describing how he recognized DA races as an untapped opportunity to remake cities according to his progressive ideology.

(FWIW): And this is the key. Just like his campaign to place his people into secretary of state offices, this approach is far cheaper, and has more impact, than contesting congressional or top state executive races.

Soros realized these races are particularly vulnerable to outside influence: Few voters know who their district attorney is, despite the DA’s major role in shaping crime enforcement.

As Soros spokesman Michael Vachon admitted, “We started a movement . . . the knee-jerk, so-called tough-on-crime philosophy has been discredited in many communities.”

He is right, and the results are catastrophic.

*The Cloward-Piven strategy is a political strategy proposed by sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in 1966 that involves overloading the welfare system by encouraging the poor to claim all government benefits to which they are entitled. The goal was to create a crisis of poverty and an ensuing political crisis, which would then create an opportunity to enact more comprehensive social welfare programs. This strategy is often viewed through a lens of controversy, with critics arguing it is a way to collapse the economy and system, while proponents see it as a means to highlight and address systemic poverty.