Musk, Soros, and The 2026 Midterms
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has donated a staggering $369M to influence the 2026 elections, making him the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
And yet, he continues to invoke George Soros as a shadowy force secretly manipulating elections and the world as we know it.
What if it’s more than just hypocrisy? Let’s take a closer look.
Antisemitic caricatures of Jewish Hungarian-American businessman, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor George Soros frequently portray him as a “puppet master” secretly controlling government, media, the economy, and even migration. These tropes are a modern manifestation of the age-old antisemitic myth that Jews are conspiring to control the world.
There is nothing inherently antisemitic about criticizing a billionaire’s political spending or philanthropy. But casting a Jewish man as the hidden hand behind global unrest isn’t criticism — it’s the age-old antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews secretly control the world.
That the world’s richest man is one of the most notorious purveyors of that very conspiracy is no coincidence. It’s a playbook.
Musk repeatedly spreads Soros-related conspiracy theories, including frequently comparing him to the X-Men villain Magneto, who, like Soros, is a Holocaust survivor. The implication? Both Soros and Magneto are shadowy puppet-masters secretly manipulating the world. Musk himself has accused Soros of wanting to “end Western civilization,” a take on the antisemitic “cultural Marxism” trope that paints Jews as undermining Western society through a planned culture war.
In addition to the antisemitic conspiracy of Jews trying to corrode society, this fits another pattern: using antisemitic tropes to deflect and project blame.
It’s important to recognize the playbook. When people in power invoke age-old antisemitic tropes to cast Jewish people as a threat to society while positioning themselves as the ones exposing the danger, we must call it out.
