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I imagine he'll tell you that there's a much simpler, cheaper and literally infallible way of preventing black recidivism and that he's happy to pay for it and implement it personally.
Presenting a binary choice narrows the range of options tremendously.
How would this get any good outcome? Does the George Soros fund care about helping prisoners, or do they want to advance their political goals? From a quick glance at their name, the 'Open Society Foundation' is more focused on the latter. What they'd do is the same inept 'rehabilitation' that works to undermine law enforcement already and a media/decisionmaker campaign against your harsh recidivism laws so it looks like you're causing the problem, not them.
They were very successful at electing people like Kim Foxx and Chesa Boudin and George Gascón who kept and keep doing exactly what was expected of them, so if that part were somehow removed and they were forced to select for people who are good at overseeing rehabilitation initiatives because that's the only way recidivists don't get back to prison, the people the Soros Foundation would choose for that would be pretty good at it.
It's, like, I'm saying what I would do if I were the Czar of the US prison system. I'd set some inviolable rules but then let Soros and friends do their best within the rules instead of trying to micromanage everything.
The Waffen SS was pretty good at fighting. But their combat abilities are localized, not general. They would not want to fight to defend Israel for instance - quite the opposite. Some of them went to help the Egyptians and Syrians attack Israel.
People have their own innate ideological goals and they want to advance them. You can't remove their core, motivating goals.
The Open Society Foundation wants their own goals and they'll advance them. If your goals are opposed to Open Society, then they're your enemy. They don't want to imprison anyone, they want to be nicer to criminals as part of their broad plans to transform society. Boudin wants to release criminals, to reduce imprisonment, to let repeat offenders out on 'community supervision'. You want to reduce crime, by rehabilitation if possible but otherwise by imprisonment. You're in conflict with his goals and he's in conflict with yours. Your foundational worldviews are dissimilar.
There's a time and a place for mistake theory and compromising but there's also a time for directly combating opponents. Trying to work with these people given differing goals and worldview wouldn't end well. Far better just to appoint prosecutors and officials that are aligned with your vision and suppress opponents.
They'd absolutely do the same to you, these are the kind of people who brought down the Tsar because he left them alone rather than suppressing them!
I don't disagree, that's why I said, specifically:
I'm not sure that the Open Society Foundation and the DAs it champions would prefer a world where unrehabilitated rapists are let free with a slap on the wrist and continue raping. Maybe they do but understandably never say it aloud, maybe they do but never even admit it to themselves. Maybe they don't believe that about rapists at all, but do believe that shoplifters are just collecting involuntary reparations. Anyway they end up promoting lawlessness, in effect valuing well being of criminals above that of law abiding citizens' while I strongly value them in the opposite direction, so I and other likeminded people should realize that this is an irreconcilable value difference that allows no compromise and we should fight to win.
What I was saying however is that a well-designed system doesn't need to be run on impeccably loyal people totalitarianly selected to have the same worldview (and in fact any system that has that as a requirement will fall to sociopaths). In case of Soros and friends we only need to ensure that they have no say on when to release repeat offenders, then their interests are aligned with ours: without an option of prematurely releasing unreformed criminals they sure prefer reforming criminals (so that they don't get imprisoned again for twice as long) to not reforming them, and can be relied to do as good job at it as they can.
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Minor nitpick but I believe the regular waffen-SS was actually outperformed by the Wehrmacht in combat, and the units with exceptional combat records were mostly highly selected units recruited from non-German groups after the war started to seriously turn.
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