ineffable

Unlike something ineffable — such as a person’s place of birth, race, sex or gender — political ideology is a choice.

And it imbues the foodstuffs, home goods, clothes, paraphernalia and tchotchkes that hail from here with a sort of unquantifiable, ineffable, sun-kissed, surf-adjacent vibe that wraps around you like a cartoon bear hug.

El Zurdo — “The Lefty” — would be Fernando Valenzuela, the youngest of 12 children from this desert hamlet in northwest Mexico who would corral a blend of ineffable talent and gritty determination to electrify Southern California and the baseball universe.

We may have finally been forced to abandon the nagging reportorial need to translate Trump’s words into promises and pledges, and leaned back out cozily into simply appreciating the former president’s ineffable sway and fist pump, and his rapturous enjoyment of show tunes.

But what they have remains ineffable.