Well, it seems like Senator Professor Warren has gotten inside Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie and has set off some tremors. From The Verge:

"You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies ... if she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government. ... But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight."

This, of course, comes on the heels of another report, this one from CNBC, that several big-money Democratic donors, all of them tied to Wall Street, and especially the private equity crowd, are so concerned about a Warren nomination that they're considering either sitting the 2020 election out, or actively supporting the re-election of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. The money quote:

“You’re in a box because you’re a Democrat and you’re thinking, ‘I want to help the party, but she’s going to hurt me, so I’m going to help President Trump,’” said a senior private equity executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity in fear of retribution by party leaders. The executive said this Wednesday, a day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump.

Patriotism in action is a wonder to behold, isn't it?

I think there's something beyond SPW's campaign going on here. The masters of the universe seem to have tumbled to the fact that, in one way or another, the entire Democratic field has moved toward SPW's end of the spectrum. Certainly, Bernie Sanders always has been there, but everyone else, including friend-of-the-credit-card Joe Biden and relative middlers like Amy Klobuchar, also are talking about taking action to even out the grotesque financial inequity present in the country, and all of them have condemned the massive Trump-Ryan tax cut as an offense against average Americans.

*calculating human smile* Manuel Blondeau/AOP.Press/Corbis Getty Images

The money power, I suspect, was feeling good about having largely ducked the hammer after having nearly blown up the entire world economy in 2008. Sure, there were fines, and some rough rhetoric, and a bit of new regulation, but considering what had been wrought by their greed and duplicity, the masters of the universe made a relatively clean getaway. Now, however, they find themselves between a mad king on the one hand, and a brigade of populists of varying styles on the other. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. And, surprisingly, some of the newer masters of the money power are willing to accept the fact that the landscape has changed. From CNBC:

...a growing contingent of Democratic donors in Silicon Valley, where many of these behemoth tech companies are located, are looking to support Warren’s 2020 campaign.

A series of interviews with some of California’s most successful investors reveal that Warren is connecting with these techies through her myriad policy proposals. What’s more, they are beginning to believe she may be the best candidate to defeat President Donald Trump. With her continued surge in the polls, they are starting to acknowledge that their preferred candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, may not end up being the nominee.

The decision by these donors to start falling in line behind Warren comes as other primary participants are trying to gain their support. Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, have been regular visitors to the Bay Area for high dollar fundraisers. Meanwhile, Warren has sworn off taking part in big money events in the primary and has vowed to not be swayed by wealthy business leaders. Her campaign put up a giant billboard in the heart of Silicon Valley calling for the break up of big tech.

SPW has to be a little bit wary of these plutocrats since their support has the potential to undermine her message, but it also has to put a chill in the Zuck's khakis. Oh, and SPW had some thoughts to share on the electric Twitter machine.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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