Donald Trump campaigned honestly on two things: racism and tariffs. There is no betrayal here, he is doing what he repeatedly said he would do.
Content_City_8250 on
May he go bankrupt, may his wife and kids leave him and may his friends abandon him. Then all he will have left is Trump who doesn’t give two cents about him.
Just_Curious_Dude on
I don’t think they feel betrayed at all, I think they’re just trying to have a voice.
We saw this with the first round of tariffs in his first administration with the USDA providing around $28b in relief to farmers because of the trade war. Trump himself just brought this back up last week I think.
Farmers are a key demographic for Republicans, even if just showing they support farmers matters to a lot of people.
So to me, it’s pretty obvious that they knew he did this in his first administration, they knew that he bailed them out and they knew when they voted for him he would do it again because he said he would. And now we are at the stage where they are being vocal to get their bailout money.
I don’t believe any of these video’s or commentary from farmers complaining about anything because they do not care about it, they just want to get paid and if they get paid, they’ll vote the same way in the future.
nosayso on
Trump explicitly and repeatedly promised huge tariffs. If they’re expecting sympathy for being “victims” of policies they openly supported they won’t get it from me. The whole thing is a great example of how Republicans have so effectively used culture wars to get people to vote against their own economic interest.
ImperiumRome on
The American Soybean Association estimates farmers lost $9.4 billion annually during the first trade war, and has warned that those losses alone would take decades to undo – even before the current trade war.
Well I’m very interested in what kind of solution that we could find now when our biggest customer just signed deals with Brazil. Let’s be honest here, the Chinese ain’t coming back, and the Brazilians won’t want to let go such lucrative deal. And there won’t be another big client on this planet like China.
It’s clear US farming sector will have to be scaled down and lots of farmers will lose everything.
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Donald Trump campaigned honestly on two things: racism and tariffs. There is no betrayal here, he is doing what he repeatedly said he would do.
May he go bankrupt, may his wife and kids leave him and may his friends abandon him. Then all he will have left is Trump who doesn’t give two cents about him.
I don’t think they feel betrayed at all, I think they’re just trying to have a voice.
We saw this with the first round of tariffs in his first administration with the USDA providing around $28b in relief to farmers because of the trade war. Trump himself just brought this back up last week I think.
Farmers are a key demographic for Republicans, even if just showing they support farmers matters to a lot of people.
So to me, it’s pretty obvious that they knew he did this in his first administration, they knew that he bailed them out and they knew when they voted for him he would do it again because he said he would. And now we are at the stage where they are being vocal to get their bailout money.
I don’t believe any of these video’s or commentary from farmers complaining about anything because they do not care about it, they just want to get paid and if they get paid, they’ll vote the same way in the future.
Trump explicitly and repeatedly promised huge tariffs. If they’re expecting sympathy for being “victims” of policies they openly supported they won’t get it from me. The whole thing is a great example of how Republicans have so effectively used culture wars to get people to vote against their own economic interest.
The American Soybean Association estimates farmers lost $9.4 billion annually during the first trade war, and has warned that those losses alone would take decades to undo – even before the current trade war.
Well I’m very interested in what kind of solution that we could find now when our biggest customer just signed deals with Brazil. Let’s be honest here, the Chinese ain’t coming back, and the Brazilians won’t want to let go such lucrative deal. And there won’t be another big client on this planet like China.
It’s clear US farming sector will have to be scaled down and lots of farmers will lose everything.