evidence: The chaos of this conjuncture, perhaps also of the political expression of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism, is captured in the amalgam that is the Sarvajana Balaya (SB–‘Universal Force’). In this alliance are those betting the other way from Champika Ranawaka on Sinhala ethnonationalism – Wimal Weerawansa, Udaya Gammanpila, Channa Jayasumana and Gevindu Cumaratunga; the dregs of the parliamentary Left – the Communist Party and the Democratic Left Front; and arriviste capitalists Dilith Jayaweera and Anuradha Yahampath. These three groups were part of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s regime: the first, because they saw him as the saviour of the Sinhala nation; the second, because they considered economic nationalism as anti-imperialism; the third, because he was not a traditional politician and promised to take counsel from professionals, technocrats, and entrepreneurs. Each of these groups were attached to successive Rajapaksa regimes. They then fell out with Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the onset of the crisis, conveniently absolving themselves of collective responsibility. In their new platform, the ‘entrepreneurial state’ for "innovation-led growth", has been added to the stock-in-trade of Sinhala racism masked as patriotism.