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A month ago, a couple dozen Democratic foreign policy hands gathered for what is now fashionably called a “convening” inside the Manhattan offices of Soros Fund Management. The meeting was organized by National Security Action, a group founded in 2018 byObama deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes and Hillary Clinton advisor Jake Sullivan,who together hoped to marshal the Democratic foreign policy community against Donald Trump in 2020. Since its inception, the organization has been funded largely by Alex Soros, scion of the Soros empire and husband of Huma Abedin,Clinton’s right-hand woman. But after Sullivan went over to the Biden campaign and later became the president’s national security advisor—with Jon Finer serving as his deputy—the group largely went into hibernation.