And then she tossed in one of her regular demagogic tricks: keeping the public angry at the banks for the 2008 financial crash. “When Blankfein says that criticizing those who break the rules is dangerous to the economy, then he’s just repeating another variation of ‘too big to fail, too big to jail, too big even to prosecute.’ That tells you here we are, seven years after the crisis and these guys still don’t get it.”

Sounds like she was ready to endorse Sanders, right? Wrong. She held back until the primary contest was basically over — and then offered her backing to Hillary.

What’s so ironic about this is that if Goldman Sachs, as an institution, were to somehow take human form and run for political office, it would be — hell, it is — Hillary Clinton.

It’s not just the donations from the firm to her campaign, which total about $180,000 so far this cycle. It’s also that the firm has paid her four times that amount in speaking fees since she left the Senate.