LEFT: “Code words” are code for “I want to raise a stink where there’s no substantial reason to. So I’m going to make up a bogus connection and claim it’s a sign of a concealed motive.”
Folk on the right don’t use code words; we say what we mean. The self-deluding, mendacious leftist is the one who uses “code words.” Comes from having to lie for several generations in order to conceal your political aims — for fear they’d be resoundingly rejected, were the truth to be told. (Which they would.)