I am reminded of Lenin's dictum: ‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’ -And wonder if it applies to populist leaders as well as

I am reminded of Lenin's dictum: ‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’ -And wonder if it applies to populist leaders as well as the soviets. I think about Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg quite a lot in this context. They hitched their wagon to the Trump train, and now they are hoist on their own petard.