Don't think of a rampaging elephant: Linguist George Lakoff explains how the Democrats helped elect Trump Democrats played into Trump's hands, Lakoff says — and they won't win until they learn how to frame the debate George Lakoff didn't start off in the world of politics. He was a founding father of cognitive linguistics, starting with his 1980 book, "Metaphors We Live By" (co-authored with philo
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