politics for the 99%

the Secret of Donald Trump’s Success, published on Social Europe (first on George Lakoff’s blog), March 7, 2016.

Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning — and winning handily, and even many Republicans don’t see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don’t know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?  

Many people are mystified. He seems to have come out of nowhere. His positions on issues don’t fit a common mold.

He likes Planned Parenthood, Social Security, and Medicare, which are not standard Republican positions. Republicans hate eminent domain (the taking of private property by the government) and love the Trans-Pacific Partnership (the TPP trade deal), but he has the opposite views on both. He is not religious and scorns religious practices, yet the Evangelicals (that is, the white Evangelicals) love him. He thinks health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, as well as military contractors, are making too much profit and wants to change that. He insults major voting groups, e.g., Latinos, when most Republicans are trying to court them. He wants to deport 11 million immigrants without papers and thinks he can. He wants to stop all Muslims from entering the country. What is going on? … //

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Related Links:

• The Brain and Its Politics – George Lakoff, 111.12 min, uploaded by UOregon;
• Moral Politics – George Lakoff, 58.57 min, uploaded by University of California Television UCTV;
• Don’t Think of an Elephant – George Lakoff, 69.23 min, uploaded by Science and Scolastic;
• Retaking Political Discourse – George Lakoff, 70.01 min, uploaded by I-House Berkeley;
• How Brains Think, the Embodiment Hypothesis – George Lakoff, 92.05 min, uploaded by PsychologicalScience;
• George Lakoff on YouTube-search;

How democrats and progressives can win – solutions:

• on YouTube, 5.14 min, uploaded by magnoliazoom;
• on OCLC WorldCat, by George Lakoff, 2004;

on en.wikipedia:

• George P. Lakoff (/’le?k?f/, born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist, best known for his thesis that lives of individuals are significantly influenced by the central metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena …; /See also; /External Links;
• OCLC: The Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) is “a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs”.[2] It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world …; /See also; /External Links;
• WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories[1] that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (sic)[2] The participating libraries collectively maintain WorldCat’s database …; /See also; /External Links.