Quote (inkanddagger @ 23 Oct 2018 23:15)
But so are the Republicans. So what's the real reason?
not the republican base. that whole "small government" thing, which in reality meant "anorexic government", has always been pushed by party leadership like paul ryan, and it's top donors like the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson. and the republican base gave this flavor of republicanism just about the biggest FU possible by siding with Trump, of all people, in the 2016 primaries.
so no, "right wingers" in the sense of "convinced and dedicated republicans" are not corporatists, and they dont want to outright bomb a guy like soros, even though they loathe him.
in reality, this was probably the action of an insane far-right extremist who believes in nutty conspiracy theories about soros and the jewish world conspiracy or some crap like that.