Eric Purchase

The MAGA movement is cocooning. It’s going dormant and will metamorphose, emerging in a couple of years in a different form. Metamorphosis enables Republicans to erase their own failures from memory and reconstitute as if their movement was something new. epurchaseattack.substack.com/p/the-ominou...

A delusion is a mental parasite, an idea that takes over your brain and reconfigures it so as to keep you from questioning the idea's validity. #Republicans

What strikes me is that Healy says he wants to hear Mark's criticism of #NYT but spends the whole time dismissing it, saying why it isn't valid. The self-regard of the mainstream press is unshakable.

The inability of the 117th Congress & Biden admin to hold the first Trump regime accountable for corruption, maladministration during a pandemic, attempted auto coup, conspiracy to defraud the people, & inciting insurrection is the worst accountability failure in U.S. history. Dems must use power.

If McDermott were still coach, the #BuffaloBills wouldn't be taking 10 penalties and be -2 in takeaways game after game.

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

“ If we only win this election on affordability concerns, on the economy, then we’re not planting any seeds for a long-term refutation of this really anti-American authoritarianism.”

This is a superb piece by Jennifer Rubin. It's not that Republicans stopped believing their own ideas but that those ideas, which have animated the party for 50 years, simply don't work and Republicans know it.

Republicans: "You keep apologizing for America." Democrats: "That's because you keep doing things we should apologize for."

How many business leaders who have praised veterans for risking their lives to defend freedom caved into Republican demands without a fight?

#France and #Germany, take advice from an American: Don't vote for the far right. It will end badly for you. You'll do better with boring old politicians.

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Does anyone doubt that the #BuffaloBills would have a stronger defense if McDermott were still the coach?

Trump to Canada: "I'm going to bring the United States to its knees. Then you'll be sorry."

Republican Party: Say you want jobs and growth. Republican voters: I want jobs and growth. Democrats: Supporting poor children turns them into healthier, more productive adults. RP: Say you don't want to be told what to think. RVs: I don't want to be told what to think.

Rural Republicans: "No turbines, and no solar farms." Also: "Man, these diesel prices are killing us!"

It's strange that phenomenology--the study of how humans experience the world--remains largely a subject for the most rational of disciplines: philosophy.

Republican voters: "I voted for Trump 3 times. I'm not voting Republican this time, but I can't bring myself to vote for Democrats." Why not? "It's too embarrassing to admit I've been wrong my whole life and those sanctimonious Democrats have been right."

Republicans expect the rest of us to respect their opinions and take them seriously even when they have been disproved repeatedly.

Satan: "Tell them to burn it all down. They'll be stupid enough to fall for it, and you'll get tax breaks." Tech bros: "I'll pay you a lot of money to tell people to burn it all down." Right-wing media: "Burn it all down!" Republicans: "Let's burn down the tech bros, too." Satan chuckles.

Satan: "Everyone else is corrupt. I'm smart to take bribes and cheat on my taxes." Republicans: "I love Satan! He's so authentic. He says what he really thinks."

Democrats:"Satan is the very embodiment of evil." Republicans: "Democrats should get over their Satan derangement syndrome." Press: "Satan a Polarizing Figure"

2028 Republican focus group: "I personally don't like Satan, but I'll vote for him because Jesus is a communist." "I just like Satan's economic policies." "I'm going to vote for Satan based on my deep Christian faith." "The Samaritans are ruining this country. Jesus is too soft on them."

I am old enough to remember Richard Nixon. What he did was criminal, but basically more stupid than anything. He didn't hurt American citizens. He was just paranoid. Compare to Trumpy who has cost everyone so much, it's not even a fair comparison. Trumpy makes billions while all of us suffer.

The same people who lied and told you Trump would be a great president are the ones telling you that Democrats are communists.

Their thinking is his thinking: We'll stick with our notions even if it kills us and everyone else.

‘Employees have produced increasing amounts of real output but in return for real wages that don’t allow them to enjoy a proportional amount as income. The end result is that an increasing share labor productivity accrues not to workers but to corporate profits.‘ www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc26...

Republican voters: "Democrats try to tell us what to think." Trump: "Canada has been taking advantage of us for years." Republican voters: "Canada has been taking advantage of us for years."

"I will admit to being surprised at the extent to which elites in 2025 seemed to surrender...we cannot throw out MAGA just to be left with the same worthless leadership class." Everything goes back to the fatal overreading of 2024. As we said on Half the Answer, screw you for getting that so wrong.

Republicans freaking out about rare gender transformations is really a displacement of the fear that's too awful for them to face: voter transformations from Republican to Democrat.

I propose a law: only one new translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey permitted every 25 years.

It’s not a triumph—it’s an embarrassment—if Democrats nudge into a single-digit lead on the economy when they are the only alternative to a failing Republican administration after a century of Republican underperformance. epurchaseattack.substack.com/p/the-econom...

It is honest to say that America’s fiscal deficit problem has one cause: Republicans. But honesty, of course, is not something you get for free: it is a discipline you have to train for, which is why we get things like the passive voice in the title of this chart of the day: **The U.S... 1/

If cutting taxes on the rich doesn't increase economic growth and create jobs, raising taxes on the rich won't decrease economic growth and reduce jobs.

Republicans, don't you ever get tired of lying to yourselves?

What the post-Trump era will be like: "We made money supporting Trump. Now we want to make money saying how sorry we are that we supported Trump."

Democrats must improve life faster—much faster—than Republicans make it worse. epurchaseattack.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Republicans are the spiritual (and sometimes actual) heirs of slaveholders.

This sucks. We want you to change outcomes without making any changes.

From here on, Democrats' motto should be: No compromise with failure. Stop trying to split the difference with Republicans whose ideas don't work. Insist on full implementation of Democratic ideas that do work.

This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

To be a Republican you must be a good liar. "Good liar" doesn't mean telling plausible lies. It means persisting in the lie no matter what, even after everyone else knows it's a lie.

The same people who lied about the Reflecting Pool also lied about . . . The 2020 election How things are going in Iran COVID Trump’s intelligence Caring about you and your family Not cutting Medicare Who would pay for the wall & ballroom Donald being successful in business & school