Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters

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Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters

December 13, 2024 at 9:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 219 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/12/13/trump-is-about-to-betray-his-rural-supporters/

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Ron Brownstein: “Donald Trump’s support in rural America appears to have virtually no ceiling. In last month’s election, Trump won country communities by even larger margins than he did in his 2020 and 2016 presidential runs. But several core second-term policies that Trump and the Republican Congress have championed could disproportionately harm those places.”

“Agricultural producers could face worse losses than any other economic sector from Trump’s plans to impose sweeping tariffs on imports and to undertake what he frequently has called ‘the largest domestic deportation operation’ of undocumented immigrants ‘in American history.’ Hospitals and other health providers in rural areas could face the greatest strain from proposals Trump has embraced to slash spending on Medicaid, which provides coverage to a greater share of adults in smaller communities than in large metropolitan areas. And small-town public schools would likely be destabilized even more than urban school districts if Trump succeeds in his pledge to expand ‘school choice’ by providing parents with vouchers to send their kids to private schools.”

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[Ocelot II]

1. And so it begins.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Fat and happy. Is that a face in your paws??

[TheBlackAdder]

30. Kiss that high-speed broadband goodbye too.

[MineralMan]

2. Another thing that might happen, though, is that

Trump might do as he has done in the past. He might say he did things he didn't do. Think of his "Wall." He's "going to build that wall. In fact a lot of it has already been built." He never built the wall, but he kept saying he was building it, even though it didn't get built.

So, maybe he'll deport a few loads of migrants, declare that he has deported "Millions and Millions" and keep saying that for four years. Meanwhile, the migrants that are working in the fields, in your favorite restaurant, etc., just keep on working there. But Trump will say, "We're deporting the migrants every day. Soon, they'll all be sent home and America will be migrant-free."

We're going to slap huge tariffs on China. Even on Canada and Mexico. Then, he'll initiate some tariffs on some thing and call it a win. Never mind that he excluded everything that his billionaire buddies don't want tariffs on. But, he'll say, "We put the tariffs on like nobody has ever seen before." People will believe him and Fox News will repeat his claims again and again.

Trump says what he'll do, then he does little, and says, "See what I did!" That's his pattern.

Or maybe not. We'll see.

[CrispyQ]

5. You're probably right.

And it will be so much easier to fleece the public when he dismantles all the reporting agencies & cows the media. The second of which he has a good start on.

[MineralMan]

7. I truly don't know what he's going to do or not do.

Just about anything is possible in the current environment, I think.

I can only wait and see, since I'm not in any position to alter how things are going to turn out. At my current age, I'm just another voter at this point.

[charliea]

29. I can only agree...

At this stage I too am only a voter. Whether or not he plans what he's doing, TSF is a chaos creator. Since he's a bag of arrogant ignorance, dumping hate, fear and lies on his believers and assures them that he's the only solution... (it's a cult ya' know)

I'm living in Oregon where we just elected a super majority of Democrats in our state House and Senate to join our re-elected governor, even flipped a Congressional seat to Democrats. But somehow I feel our state's rights will be under constant attack for at least the next two if not 4 years...

PS: the 1 term Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer who lost has been nominated by TSF to run the Labor Department, with apparently some resistance from the RW echo chamber, assuming that she's too pro-worker (ha!)

[Evolve Dammit]

23. Spot on Crispy!

[BeerBarrelPolka]

21. If

If that happens, the Dems must publicly make announcements of his lies each and everyday. Call him out as a liar and manipulator.

[CrispyQ]

3. "Agricultural producers could face worse losses than any other economic sector from..."

So he not only won't be able to bring the price of groceries down, now they're gonna go up even more. Sure didn't see that coming.

[allegorical oracle]

9. Another valuable point the story makes is that the agricultural industry not only

loses labor, but that labor must eat, wear clothes, sleep somewhere, too (altho some farms have living quarters for workers). That benefits rural businesses, which will be lost.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

32. And opening the door for foreign investors to buy ag land...

... Trump's tariffs in his first go around cost farmers $7.8 billion in lost soybean sales in one year! China and others looked to Brazil and the clear cut rain forest lands to make up for it. Which Brazil was only too happy to answer to. Argentina is chomping at the bit for the next round of TSF tariffs.

[tanyev]

4. And they'll ask for more.

smh

[Norbert]

6. MAGAs will blame Nancy Pelosi and the deep state

Many will fall right in line.

[DENVERPOPS]

25. From what I have witnessed

The MAGAots are in complete and total denial, and will remain that way for some time to come.

Even when they are being screwed, they will continue to listen to FUX news and RW Radio and keep on believing, and be thoroughly and totally brainwashed with the info they are receiving......

[Dave Bowman]

27. "thoroughly and totally brainwashed"

At this point their brains have been washed so much that there's probably nothing left. Not that they were rich in neurons to begin with.

[allegorical oracle]

8. Thanks for posting this. nt

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

10. For the most part, rural whites lust for superiority over other races.

I live among them in a southern state, and they just love feeling superior to non-whites. That's what the Gang Of Putinites gives them, racism on a white-silver platter. Most are not going to care about any suffering Trump doles out to them. I blame religion, where lightness, brightness & whiteness is considered good, while darkness, dimness & blackness is considered evil. Therefore, it's not surprising why whites lap up Christianity, but it is surprising that non-whites would go along with it.

[Dan]

11. I suspect that once in Office /- a few days,

We will never know the truth of what Trump is doing unless we start watching the BBC/Guardian etc., news sources.

American media is owned and controlled by the Oligarchs - so the truth of anything is that truth that they will propagate to the public.

Sad

[Paper Roses]

13. I start my day with 'the Guardian'. BBC is great too but both are too close in content so I chose one.

[Old Crank]

12. You can't fix stupid.

They believed the lies. Even when they were told and shown they were lies. He has always been for the rich.

The worker issue could get interesting since big farmers and big construction are lining up to get exemptions for their undocumented workers. They need to be jailed.

[surfered]

14. Trump is the caricature of a timeshare or used car salesman. He'll say anything to make the sale.

After that, it’s on to the next sucker.

[Dave Bowman]

28. Yeah, he's truly a piece of shit used car salesman.

[Emile]

15. Republicans will never blame him.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Facts and truth are going to be hard to obtain for most. The ReThug narrative will DOMINATE the MSM and Social Media

from this point forward. Alternative facts will become the mainstay to many.

[Joinfortmill]

17. They brought this on themselves & unfortunately, the rest of us

[Montauk6]

18. You know one true thing I LOATHE about FAFO?

Sure, there's some consolation in seeing karmic justice but WHY DO THE ONES WHO DO THE RIGHT THING HAVE TO GET CAUGHT IN THE FUSILADE????!!!!!

[perdita9]

19. You get what you vote for

I love farmers but hopefully they don't expect us to act sympathetic when they whine about the predictable problems they got from their choice at the ballot box.

[LuvLoogie]

20. Their ancestors happily took over stolen land. It was their God given Manifest Destiny.

This mindset is in America's DNA. It will never change. The further ethnic cleansing and further gutting of voting rights and infrastructure will continue apace.

[LeftInTX]

24. He's done it before.

[lindysalsagal]

26. And somehow they'll assert it's all Obama's fault.

[kacekwl]

31. They don't care as long

as he gets rid of the Mexicans taking their jobs and talkin mexican.