Eric Purchase
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Advice from a professional writer on how to take down the Republican Party. Don't react, attack. https://epurchaseattack.substack.com/
Advice from a professional writer on how to take down the Republican Party. Don't react, attack. https://epurchaseattack.substack.com/
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5 Conditions for Republicans' Rehabilitation
Even Republican voters are starting to notice the Trump administration is a disaster.
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"Democrats should propose a benchmark for what Republicans must do to return to normal democratic politics. What conditions must Republicans meet before people consider it safe to vote for them again? Here are five."
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I am thankful for this community.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am thankful for this community.
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"Democrats should propose a benchmark for what Republicans must do to return to normal democratic politics. What conditions must Republicans meet before people consider it safe to vote for them again? Here are five."
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5 Conditions for Republicans' Rehabilitation
Even Republican voters are starting to notice the Trump administration is a disaster.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Democrats should propose a benchmark for what Republicans must do to return to normal democratic politics. What conditions must Republicans meet before people consider it safe to vote for them again? Here are five."
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Voters in 2024: I guess I'll give Trump another try.
Dems: It's obvious he's lying about everything.
Voters: You guys think you're smarter than everyone else. Well, I'm entitled to my opinion.
Dems: [Sigh]
Voters in 2025: He lied to us! I'm shocked and angry.
Dems: It's obvious he's lying about everything.
Voters: You guys think you're smarter than everyone else. Well, I'm entitled to my opinion.
Dems: [Sigh]
Voters in 2025: He lied to us! I'm shocked and angry.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Voters in 2024: I guess I'll give Trump another try.
Dems: It's obvious he's lying about everything.
Voters: You guys think you're smarter than everyone else. Well, I'm entitled to my opinion.
Dems: [Sigh]
Voters in 2025: He lied to us! I'm shocked and angry.
Dems: It's obvious he's lying about everything.
Voters: You guys think you're smarter than everyone else. Well, I'm entitled to my opinion.
Dems: [Sigh]
Voters in 2025: He lied to us! I'm shocked and angry.
Dems: Everything you like about modern life for the last 10 generations, including capitalism, was advocated by liberals and opposed by conservatives who said they were going too far.
Reps: We know that, but liberals today are going too far.
Reps: We know that, but liberals today are going too far.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Dems: Everything you like about modern life for the last 10 generations, including capitalism, was advocated by liberals and opposed by conservatives who said they were going too far.
Reps: We know that, but liberals today are going too far.
Reps: We know that, but liberals today are going too far.
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No negotiation is possible with nazi!
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
No negotiation is possible with nazi!
Effective sound bites are simple, striking, and assertive. They crystallize perceptions that are vaguely forming in the public mind, or they offer a resolution to people’s worries. Here are eight sound bites for Democrats.
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Democrats, Repeat These 8 Lines
We all scorn sound bites and slogans, but they work.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Effective sound bites are simple, striking, and assertive. They crystallize perceptions that are vaguely forming in the public mind, or they offer a resolution to people’s worries. Here are eight sound bites for Democrats.
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Still, the U.S. trade deficit is up so far in 2025, coming in at $713.6 billion through August, compared to $571.1 billion in January-August 2024. https://to.pbs.org/47O8mnE
U.S. trade deficit dropped nearly 24% in August as Trump's tariffs reduce imports
In a report delayed for more than seven weeks by the federal government shutdown, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that the the gap between what the United States buys from other countries and w...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Still, the U.S. trade deficit is up so far in 2025, coming in at $713.6 billion through August, compared to $571.1 billion in January-August 2024. https://to.pbs.org/47O8mnE
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Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
Trump is in Full Retreat
A scandal that he inflamed engulfs his presidency
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November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
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When the #EpsteinFiles are released, instead of piling on Trump, Democrats should attack conservative religious leaders, Republican Congressmen and other right-wing types who sold us Trump with everything they had.
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When the #EpsteinFiles are released, instead of piling on Trump, Democrats should attack conservative religious leaders, Republican Congressmen and other right-wing types who sold us Trump with everything they had.
Don't talk about Trump. Talk about Republicans' fawning support for Trump. #EpsteinFiles
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Don't talk about Trump. Talk about Republicans' fawning support for Trump. #EpsteinFiles
After decades of talking about healthcare, education, the environment, and so on, Democrats still haven’t convinced a majority of people that they need what’s being offered. Time for three basic lessons on sales.
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Lessons on Selling for Dems
Democrats don’t know how to sell their policies to Americans.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
After decades of talking about healthcare, education, the environment, and so on, Democrats still haven’t convinced a majority of people that they need what’s being offered. Time for three basic lessons on sales.
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The Republican Party is made up of several factions, but they all share four ways of thinking about themselves in relation to the world. If Democrats can invalidate these habits of thinking, they will disorient Republicans and lure some of them away.
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How to Smash the Republican Mindset
Republicans are ripe for 2x4 rhetoric, blunt talk that will break their mental model of the world.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Republican Party is made up of several factions, but they all share four ways of thinking about themselves in relation to the world. If Democrats can invalidate these habits of thinking, they will disorient Republicans and lure some of them away.
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"My assessment from July remains the same: Democrats aren’t doing what it takes to break out of the established pattern where occasional big wins fool them into thinking they’re doing a good job while Republicans slowly get everything they want."
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Dems Still Blowing Their Opportunity
In July, I said the crucial date for Democrats isn’t Tuesday, November 3, 2026, the date of the midterm elections, but the next day, Wednesday, November 4, 2026 (see “Countdown to Dems Blowing Their O...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"My assessment from July remains the same: Democrats aren’t doing what it takes to break out of the established pattern where occasional big wins fool them into thinking they’re doing a good job while Republicans slowly get everything they want."
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Hard-headed realists are more vulnerable to fantasies than romantic idealists.
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hard-headed realists are more vulnerable to fantasies than romantic idealists.
This is a hoot, and right on. Attack them at their rotten core.
NEW VIDEO: "Top 10 Tips For Being a Conservative Christian"
Tip #11: "Judge poor people for being on SNAP instead of helping them when they are without food. Glory!"
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Tip #11: "Judge poor people for being on SNAP instead of helping them when they are without food. Glory!"
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Top 10 Tips For Being a Conservative Christian
YouTube video by Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
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October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is a hoot, and right on. Attack them at their rotten core.
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Yup
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Yup
Tesla stock doesn't sound like a good investment right now. This is the kind of thing you do to pull out as much money as you can before the company collapses. If the board is smart, it will let Musk go.
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Tesla risks losing CEO Musk if $1 trillion pay package isn't approved, board chair says
Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm said Elon Musk is key to the future of the EV maker as it focuses more on Full Self Driving and Optimus.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Tesla stock doesn't sound like a good investment right now. This is the kind of thing you do to pull out as much money as you can before the company collapses. If the board is smart, it will let Musk go.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/t...
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Democratic leaders, I’m tired of losing elections we should win to candidates who are incompetent buffoons. You wanna know what I want from you? I’ll tell you.
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What I Want From the Democratic Party
Democratic leaders, I’m tired of always being on the defensive.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Democratic leaders, I’m tired of losing elections we should win to candidates who are incompetent buffoons. You wanna know what I want from you? I’ll tell you.
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