Sometimes you can take the measure of a person by the enemies she makes. Senator Elizabeth Warren has made the right enemies — the Wall Street bastards who took our economy down and then prospered.
So whom would Wall Street prefer: Warren, the anti-corporate crusader who promises to be a steadier hand? Or Trump, a president who generally tries to keep his friends happy but is so unpredictable that his actions risk blowing up the system?
“I would vote for Trump and hold my nose, and he’s worse than anything I feared,” one fund manager told me. He said in 2016 he wrote in Mitt Romney’s name and told me he believes Warren is a socialist (she’s not). “How you vote in this coming election is voting your pocketbook or the need to have a person in office who is a person of integrity. If you vote your pocketbook, clearly, you’re voting with Trump.”
In recent weeks, I reached out to more than a dozen fund managers, traders, and investors to pose to them a relatively simple question: If in 2020 it comes down to Warren versus Trump, whom do you choose? Many of them preferred not to comment, but about half of the group weighed in — albeit some on the condition of anonymity.
The general response: Many don’t love Trump, but they would largely pick him over Warren — or would write in someone else. It’s a sign of how deeply despised Warren is among the banking industry, even Democrats.
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We are going to raise taxes on you and regulate your sorry asses.
Just like the French fascists in the 1930s who said, “Better Hitler than Blum,” these people say “Better Trump than Warren.” F.ck Wall Street!
And for those who think we better back down because Wall Street does not approve, cowards never make change.
Warren for President
Update I: From the same link, the Warren campaign takes pride in their enemies:
Warren’s campaign brushed the criticism off. “Elizabeth is serious about holding bankers personally accountable when they break the law,” Warren spokeswoman Kristen Orthman said in an emailed statement. “She wants to make big structural economic change that takes power away from corporations and gives it to workers. Of course Wall Street is afraid of her — and they are right to be.”