Never Trumper Darmok

By now you will have noticed that our Never Trump "allies" are incapable of expressing their indignation with their former party using objective terms and a stand-alone vocabulary.  

Instead, like the Tamarians in the ST:TNG, Season 5, Episode 2 "Darmok", their critiques are expressed almost entirely in metaphors and allegories.  Metaphors and allegories which are meaningful only to themselves.  Specifically, they are hardwired to criticize their former party in ways that almost always involve comparisons to us villains here on the Left.  

This was especially striking during this Bulwark interview "Little Marco Goes FULL MAGA! (w/ David French)".  When describing Donald Trump's policies, David French cannot simply point out that they are catastrophically awful. 

Instead you get:

...at an event at the White House so you know we'll get to that in a second yeah it's like Bernie's economics and Code Pink's foreign policy...

And:

Marco sounded like Cindy Sheehan.

And:

Cancel Culture from the far left, bad!  Cancel Culture [from the Right] hold my beer.

And:

...you take almost any malady of the far left and then you take it over to the to the Trump right and they make it worse...

And:

...far-left condescension smug y'know, if you're disagreeing with me you're a bad problematic person. That's bad!  Trump turns it into, if you disagree with me, I'm so obviously right that you're not just an idiot if you disagree that you're also a coward.

And, to repeat in case you missed it:

...every malady you saw on the far left in the sort of woke world the anti-woke MAGA world has replicated and amplified.

For goofs like French, it is imperative to continually remind anyone who will listen (which is a lot of people now that The New York Times has given him a job) that we on the Left were the OG villains, and that we still are just fucking awful.  

In other words, "Bork, his face black, his eyes red."

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