“If the Tea Party gets pushed out into the wilderness then actually I am very optimistic that there is a chance that the two-party system in America … will actually start functioning again,” he said.
George Soros said he thinks President Barack Obama is trying to divide the Republican Party and split off the Tea Party “extremists” — something that if successful, would restore the balance of the two-party system.
“I think Obama is trying to split the Republican Party between the Tea Party and the establishment,” the billionaire investor and self-described “bleeding heart liberal” told a group of reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 24.
Soros said he believes it’s possible, particularly if the Tea Party continues down its “unsustainable” track.
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