Thinking more on it, this whole using the Klingons as political analogs is interesting to me.
The only Klingons I ever rooted against were the TOS Klingons, who were pretty much always as deceiving as a low down dirty deceiver. Then, with a change we may have started to see the foreshadowing of in The Undiscovered Country, the Klingons did in fact start to become what these producers see as "bad". Death before dishonor, handling your own problems, etc. (As a group. Obviously there were some "bad" subsets and individuals).
However, as honorable as the Klingons became, they were generally looked down upon from TNG on. I still remember how aggravated I would get when Worf would recommend shields and arming photon torpedoes, and some tactical nobody like Troy would roll her eyes and then Picard would start off on some SJW lecture.
The Klingons became what to me were people with an honorable code to admire, but to the producers, and I guess to a generation growing up on those post TOS series, something to avoid becoming because it wasn't "enlightened". Now they are once again the deplorables of the ST universe.
Like I said in the OP, I'll be rooting for the Klingons in this new series (if it's even something I want to watch).