Elon Musk Is Far More Popular Than George Soros, New Poll Finds

Many on the Left seem to be having a conniption about President Donald Trump tapping Elon Musk to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government, but they seem not to worry that another billionaire has been pulling the strings in Washington far longer than the owner of X.

As my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” recounts, Hungarian American billionaire financier George Soros—who has funded just about every leftist cause you’ve ever heard of—forms part of the Left’s dark money network that funded the woke activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration, steering policy while the president was asleep at the wheel.

George Soros’ son Alex now runs his Open Society Foundations, and Alex Soros recently said he wouldn’t run for political office because he already holds a “more impactful position now.” The fact that he’s right says a great deal about how the Left operates.

A new poll shows that Musk enjoys a higher approval rating with the American people than his counterpart on the Left.

When asked their opinion of Musk, 44% of registered voters said they have a “very favorable” (22%) or “somewhat favorable” (22%) opinion, while 47% said they have a “somewhat unfavorable” (14%) or a “very unfavorable” (33%) view.

Only 2% of registered voters said they had never heard of Musk, and another 7% said they were not sure of their opinion.

Meanwhile, only 17% said they hold a “very favorable” (5%) or “somewhat favorable” (12%) opinion of George Soros, while 41% said they had a “somewhat unfavorable” (16%) or a “very unfavorable” (25%) view of him. Far more voters said they had never heard of Soros (22%) or were not sure of their opinion (21%).

While both figures are divisive, Musk enjoys more than twice as much support as Soros among the general public. His net favorable rating, minus 3, is far better than Soros’ minus 24.

The poll, conducted by RMG Research for the Napolitan Institute, surveyed registered voters online between Feb. 10 and 11. The margin of error is +/- 3.1 percentage points.

The Worldview Gap Between Musk and Soros

In fact, there’s a vast worldview divide between Musk and George Soros—while the Soros clan prefers ever-expanding bureaucracy that favors its woke interests (from gender ideology to climate alarmism to Marxist “equity” and a preference for technocratic government), the Telsa and SpaceX founder favors creative destruction.

When Elon Musk purchased Twitter, he rooted out the bureaucratic bloat and lit a fire under the staff he kept and under those he hired on. He drove a leaner and more efficient social media machine, and now X is firing on all cylinders. Musk wants to do the same thing to the federal government.

Through the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk is leading an effort to trim the federal bureaucracy and bring some sanity back to the way government works.

By contrast, the Open Society Foundations has worked alongside bureaucratic agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development, funding many of the same left-wing projects as USAID.

Open Society Foundations has claimed that it does not receive funding from USAID or direct the funding of USAID, but its ties to USAID are undeniable. Not only has Open Society funded the same projects as USAID, but its leaders met with former USAID Administrator Samantha Power at least twice, the Soros foundations network listed USAID among its “donor partners” in 2001, and an Open Society nonprofit actually sued USAID twice, with the cases reaching the Supreme Court both times.

A Washington Examiner analysis found that many former USAID officials now hold mid- to high-level positions at Open Society Foundations.

One of the same projects that USAID and Open Society Foundations funded is the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project—an organization that attacked conservatives for criticizing Soros and that published the report that sparked the first Trump impeachment.

The Organized Crime Corruption and Reporting Project attacked Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.; Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

What had these conservatives done? They made the mistake of noticing that the U.S. Embassy to Macedonia had selected Soros’ Open Society Foundations as the main implementer for USAID projects in the Eastern European country. According to Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., USAID awarded a $2.54 million contract to Open Society for training in “civic activism,” “mobilization,” and “civic engagement” in February 2017.

The East West Management Institute—which has long listed Open Society Foundations as a donor and implementing partner and which received $31.2 million from USAID in the last full fiscal year ending on Sept. 30—launched court changes in Albania that critics allege resulted in the prosecution of Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha, silencing the opponent of the country’s socialist prime minister.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned the “insane priorities” that USAID has funded, mentioning “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.”

Soros, whose foundation has bankrolled transgender activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign and climate alarmist groups like the Sierra Club, may not have directed USAID’s funding for woke projects, but the ties between the Open Society Foundations and USAID raise serious questions.

Soros’ institutionalized funding of woke priorities represents the rot Musk aims to root out of the federal government, and it stands to reason that if more Americans knew who Soros was, their opinions of him would sink even further.

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