New York Times columnist David French just gave the latest in a long list of reasons why nobody should take him seriously. The author is known for being one of the most prominent sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) on the planet. After years and years of spilling digital ink on the horrors of the Orange Man What Is Bad™, French seems finally to have lost all sense of perspective.

In an op-ed published on Sunday, French highlighted the case of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was recently ordered to pay almost $150 million to two plaintiffs who alleged that he defamed them by falsely claiming they tampered with ballots in Georgia during the 2020 election.  

In the piece, French details the trial and describes how Giuliani’s false statements impacted the people they were leveled at. Then, he starts putting on the dramatics.

The verdict is against Giuliani alone. But make no mistake, MAGA was on trial in the courtroom — its methods, its morality and the means it uses to escape the consequences of its dreadful acts. That’s because Rudy Giuliani isn’t truly Rudy Giuliani any longer. In his long descent from a post-9/11 American hero to a mocked, derided and embattled criminal defendant (he has also been indicted in Fani Willis’s sprawling Georgia case), he became something else entirely. He became a MAGA Man.

That’s right, folks. Giuliani is a MAGA Man, which sounds like the title of a corny Trump-themed comic book created for laughs.

French notes that “[t]here are many MAGA Men and MAGA Women in the modern G.O.P.” and that “[t]o meet one is, in significant respects, to meet them all.”

The author goes on to assert that a “MAGA Man” is “dishonest” and that because “Trump is a liar” and “demands fealty to his lies,” Giuliani’s job was to “lie on his behalf.”

Then, French completely loses all sense of reality and goes full progressive hack, using one of their favorite tactics: Diminishing the importance of historical atrocities to attack Trump.

One of the persistent debates in American life centers on how strictly we should judge the sins of our national past. Were those people who owned slaves or broke faith with Native Americans or passed the Chinese Exclusion Act merely products of their time? MAGA Men and MAGA Women will not have that excuse. They know there is a different way. Before Trump, many of them — whatever their flaws — lived very different lives. And few of them more so than Giuliani.

To sum it up, French believes that people who support the former president are somehow worse than those who owned slaves, murdered Native Americans, and discriminated against Chinese immigrants. Why? Because Trump supporters “know there is a different way,” as if those who participated in or supported the aforementioned horrors were unaware that they could have taken a different course of action.

These are precisely the tactics leftists use when they want to smear their opponents. They called Trump Hitler and his supporters Nazis. Those supporting voting reform legislation were participating in “Jim Crow 2.0.” These folks are more than willing to make a mockery of the abhorrent abuses that were inflicted on groups of people to score some cheap political points. Apparently, French is no different.

One can make principled criticisms of Trump and his supporters. No politician should ever be above scrutiny. But downplaying some of the worst chapters in American history to attack a politician only reveals French as an unprincipled bad faith actor.