An excellent analysis and call to action. I like putting populism into a frame of a “crisis of legitimacy,” because that both explains the rise of populist currents and opens the door to getting beyond the notion of populism per se. As Jonathan notes, populism usually suggests a homogeneous “people” against the elites, which works against the need for ensuring that, for example, Black Lives Matter. But following Laclau and Mouffe’s proposal in 1985 that we have to “stitch” together a historic agent capable of moving transformational change, we can see that a left populism, if we need to use that term, is stitched together politically to respond to the crisis of legitimacy; that is, it isn’t a homogeneous “us” that denies the realities of race, gender, etc.