No, of course not. No one has evern previously suggested either Hillary or Lieberman were populists. Never heard such a suggestion before. And, of course, suggesting that Lenin was some great populist whose legacy was spoiled by his successors seems quite odd given the fact that Lenin, once in power, created the Cheka (Soviet secret police) and imposed strict state control over the newspapers. When workers formed their own independent (non Bolshevik) soviets, Lenin's secret police broke them up. He brutally killed off any and all non-Bolshevik opposition (even non-Bolshevik communist) and any and all rivals within the Bolksheviks. After an assassination attempt, Lenin unleashed Stalin's "Red Terror" and was openly supportive of "mass terror against enemies of the revolution." Lenin himself set up the system that became the Gulags. Some populist.