Did Trump go full Lenin?

What about this Donald Trump tweet?

When President Trump addressed the CPAC convention late this week, I think he repeated it (but I am not certain of that).

Did Trump go full Lenin in using the phrase, enemy of the people?

Well, Lenin did use it - a lot. But the term was first used by the Romans, originating in Latin as hostis publicus. The expression  popped up occasionally in the intervening centuries. Lenin was a  latecomer to its use. In his 1917 essay, "The Enemies of the People," published in Pravda, he directly attributed the phrase to the French Jacobins of the late 1700s:

The Jacobins of 1793 belonged to the most revolutionary class of the eighteenth century, the town and country poor. It was against this class, which had in fact (and not just in words) done away with its monarch, its landowners and its moderate bourgeoisie by the most revolutionary measures, including the guillotine—against this truly revolutionary class of the eighteenth century—that the monarchs of Europe combined to wage war.

The Jacobins proclaimed enemies of the people those "promoting the schemes of the allied tyrants directed against the Republic".

The Jacobins’ example is instructive. It has not become obsolete to this day, except that it must be applied to the revolutionary class of the twentieth century, to the workers and semi-proletarians. To this class, the enemies of the people in the twentieth century are not the monarchs, but the landowners and capitalists as a class.

So the phrase is mostly associated with Lenin in our day, and the severity meted out to Leninism's enemies of the people steadily became more harsh as Lenin gained and consolidated power. Finally, to be named an enemy of the people was pretty much equal to being executed.

Trump did not go full Lenin, but he went part Lenin and no right-thinking American should be okay with that.

Don't go here, Donald!