Great issue, as always, but I’m disappointed to see that my fellow Kansas native Tom Frank is losing the battle in the pages of Jacobin to return the word “populism” to its noble roots — not as shorthand for racism, xenophobia, and authoritarianism, but as an expression of popular solidarity coined by political idealists riding a wave of left-wing revolt by radical farmers and industrial workers.

If you’re talking about the Right, use “fake populism,” if you must.

 — Jeff Mikkelson, Cold Spring, NY