Democratic 2020 hopefuls pay lip service to the left. Don’t be fooled | Bhaskar Sunkara

Likely candidates are begging for Wall Street’s support – and reminding us who really owns American democracy

It’s a framing that’s been everywhere over the past two years: the Resistance v Donald Trump. By some definitions that “resistance” even includes people like Mitt Romney and George W Bush. By almost all definitions it encompasses mainstream Democrats, such as the likely presidential hopefuls Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand.

In their rhetoric ...