The words and phrases themselves strike me as ranging from genuinely odd and offputting to ones I myself use regularly (and don’t think that odd). I don’t think they are all equally toxic. Some of them I have even heard righties use. I suspect for many of them, it will strongly depend on context.
But overall, a tempest in a teapot. I think finding the right candidates with the right policy message matters more than obeying anyone’s magic list of words/phrases to avoid at all cost.
But hey, Tom seems to derive pleasure from being a curmudgeon (for a long time he even proudly described himself thus) sermonizing liberals, and I doubt anything I post here will change that.