The Financial Times ran an interview with Alex Soros, heir to the evil empire, in which we learned a whole lot more about Mini Me and his Muslim interviewer’s food preferences than anything substantial about the Soros political and financial empires. Conducted with the depth of a celebrity mag interview, this was a fairly shallow effort at humanizing Soros. But there was one interesting line from the monster’s brat.

Replying to a question about Trump and conservatives, Alex Soros said, “We have to know what we’re dealing with. These people are bullies. And you fight back, you push back . . . I hope Marx was right that first comes the tragedy and then comes the farce. I worry it’ll be the other way around, that we’ll look back at Trump’s first term as farcical and this is going to be very bad and tragic for a lot of people.”

We have the scion of one of the wealthiest men whining about “bullies”. But the choice of a Marx and that quote is an interesting one. What kind of fellow defaults to a Marx quote? That one’s obvious.

But the quote reveals a particular reading of history. The familiar idea of ‘bourgeois’ societies declining. Alex Soros hopes that Trump’s second term follows the pattern of decline giving way to revolution rather than an actual revival.