From his vantage point bobbing on the ocean, he could see spot fires cropping up all over lower Topanga — no firefighters in sight.

After any natural disaster, horror stories invariably crop up about insurance companies skimping or dragging their feet on payments to vulnerable homeowners.

The tool’s signature baby blue graphs dot social media and crop up on many of the world’s most popular news websites.

But this minimizing attitude is cropping up all over Democratic spaces.

“The loose intermodal analogies — for example, ‘Red is like the sound of a trumpet’ — which crop up in discussions of this subject are of little use.