Should Democrats team up with Wall Street to fight Trump? Hell no.

Don't help Trump hand the country over to bankers

Step away.
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President Trump's broad assault on immigrants, Muslims, voting rights, and more has raised opposition to Trump among liberals to a fever pitch. And among some of them, that means it's time to put aside criticism of Big Finance in favor of a broad anti-Trump coalition. When Bernie Sanders tweeted over the weekend that the Democratic Party needs to be transformed to "stand up to Wall Street," critics argued that now is not the time.

While the rise of an extreme right president does call for a large coalition, it simply cannot include the financial industry. As both a matter of moral principle and political pragmatism, Democrats must strengthen their anti-Wall Street posture. Here's why.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.