Tim Walz' perfect antidote: ("weird")
Tim Walz' perfect antidote: (weird)
https://www.theframelab.org/
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In many ways, the governor of Minnesota felt like the perfect antidote to Trump and Vance.
A folksy football coach, Walz had passed a historic array of life-improving policies—including free lunches for all kids. He seemed to possess the uncommon clarity of an average American, a trope this country has loved since Benjamin Franklin.
For those who care about framing as a defense of democracy in this dangerous moment, Walz possessed two sparkling credentials. He'd been at the top of the ticket as Democrats in Minnesota ran a coordinated “Greater than Fear” campaign that launched one of the best efforts to message against Trumpism. And he wrote a master's thesis on Holocaust education!
With “weird,” Walz wasn't just being funny. He was projecting a profound moral concern, something Democrats have generally struggled with expressing when faced with the incomprehensible immorality of Donald Trump. He wasn't calling Trump a “betrayer” or a “loser”—as Dr. Lakoff has long suggested to undermine Trump's role at the top of the right's strict father hierarchy. But he was implying both of those things.
The message was: You can't trust this man, not just because he's a liar. He has no values except his right to dominate you. We know this because he turns on almost everyone eventually, including his last running mate. He's a loser who can't accept a loss.
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I love George Lakoff! The dems should have hired him back in the Bush years. Earlier, even but for sure by then. How funny that I hadn't thought of Lakoff in a long time until yesterday when I read that statement by Frank Luntz*, a sort of repub counterpart to Lakoff. Then you post this today. 
* on edit: Luntz made a positive statement about Cory Booker's speech.
