Bernie Sanders aimed his fiery rhetoric at Wall Street last week, accusing America’s financial titans of using fraud as a business model. It’s unlikely the Vermont senator will ever be president, but it wouldn’t take much for the political climate to turn hostile again toward the biggest cog in New York City’s economic engine, especially now that the stock market has gotten stormy.

Even Hillary Clinton, whom Sanders berates for being too chummy with Wall Street, says she wants to eliminate one of its favorite things: a loophole that taxes money managers’ pay at the advantageous capital-gains rate rather than as ordinary income.

Back in 2009, Rep. Barney Frank made a group of Wall Street CEOs squirm when he asked them point-blank: “If you didn’t get a bonus, what part of your job would you not do?” It’s been a long time since any politician zinged the financial elite like that, probably because few of them possess Frank’s wit or want to offend the people who finance their campaigns.

But expect more, perhaps as soon as next month, when the state comptroller’s office reports just how big Wall Street bonuses were in 2015, a year when the stock market returned next to nothing.

The antipathy may be mostly hot air unless, of course, there’s another market crash. The bailouts that saved the city’s vital financial-services sector after the 2008 crisis are unlikely to be as generous.

To avoid being cast aside, Wall Street is quietly lining up behind its preferred candidates. Last week, for example, former AIG chief Hank Greenberg gave $10 million to Jeb Bush, whose brother’s administration famously bailed out AIG in 2008.