George Lakoff pinned the tail on the donkey in his book Don't Think of an Elephant, defining Republican strategic initiatives as legislative policy goals that foster a conservative nirvana by gutting environmental, public health and worker protections while simultaneously decimating the Democratic Party's resource base.
Think tort reform. By closing down an avenue of justice for victims of say, corporate neglect, the GOP gets a "two-fer." They solidify their base and motivate CEOs to write them big checks while simultaneously...
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