Little Rock, Arkansas, seems an unlikely place for a soft-on-crime prosecutor to win an election. But don’t underestimate the effect of low turnout, combined with low public awareness of candidates for local office. George Soros is betting on these factors to put one over on Arkansans, and they must not let it happen.

Let me preface this with an acknowledgment that Soros has found a clever way to gain influence. He puts big money behind no-name candidates running for obscure offices against other no-name candidates. Here’s how the New York Times described it in 2019, quoting and paraphrasing the director of one of Soros’s dark-money organizations: