“The capitalists,” the apocryphal quotation goes, “will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Vladimir Lenin, as far as we know, never actually said that, but it appears pretty close to the mantra of the gang currently in the White House.

But, in the Obama era, the saying needs a few amendments. First, it’s the lobbyists, not the capitalists, actually selling the rope. And it’s not the current CEOs, but their employees and successors, who will be hanged.