The Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is attracting some unlikely supporters. Eyebrows were raised recently when Asher Edelman, a well-known corporate raider in the 1980s, pledged his support for the Vermont senator. Edelman, the inspiration for the unscrupulous Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street, runs Edelman Arts, a secondary-market dealership, and Art Assure, which “specialises in asset-based lending using art as collateral”. In a video posted online, he says: “All of the issues that Bernie talks about will lead us back to a productive economy for the middle classes down to the poor.”