All this month, Donald Trump has been attempting to drum up fear among voters that a migrant caravan hundreds of miles from the border is a grave threat to their lives, and that only he and his fellow Republicans can protect them. Two weeks ago, he claimed, without any evidence, that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the group. Later, to heighten the drama, he dispatched thousands of troops to “secure” the border and deny the migrants entry, despite the fact that 1) they’re traveling on foot and weeks away, 2) the military doesn’t actually have the power to do anything once they’re there, and 3) the group plans to surrender at a port of entry and seek amnesty, which is the only way they can do so under current U.S. law. Perhaps worried that voters were not sufficiently scared enough to stave off a “blue wave,” though, on Wednesday, he pulled out the big guns and the mother of all dog whistles: a conspiracy theory about George Soros, a favorite bogeyman among white nationalists and neo-Nazis:

As even presidential boot-licker Anthony Scaramucci will tell you, George Soros is not paying the people headed for the U.S. border. You know who else probably knows that? Donald Trump. But with less than a week until the midterms, it’s apparently too difficult for him not to stoke anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the financier—just like the one included in a campaign ad during the 2016 election. That some of his more violent supporters might view this as him giving them the green light to put a bomb in Soros’s mailbox—or shoot up a synagogue—is apparently of little import.

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Wall Street is hoping to make a few new friends in Washington

And, obviously, they know the best way to make friends in this town: