To the Editor,

I was deeply disappointed to read the letter from Jim Riviello, “Trump was a great president” (November 20 edition). The writer claims that Trump’s defeat will result in so-called “globalists” being allowed “back into control.”

As Ben Zimmer wrote in The Atlantic in March of 2018, the term “globalists” has a long and sordid history as nothing more than a euphemism for an imaginary Jewish conspiracy. From Henry Ford and the Ku Klux Klan to the modern “alt-right” and its cheerleaders, undercurrents of anti-Semitic rhetoric have been sickening the body politic of these United States.

I call on all lovers of freedom, democracy, and religious liberty to oppose anti-Semitic rhetoric wherever it rears its ugly head.

Jessi Porch
Swarthmore