Why Farmers Voted For Trump [View all]

[Gaugamela]

This popped up in my YouTube feed. The presenter is a small farm owner in North Carolina, and she gives a quick summary of why farmers voted for Trump. They voted for tax breaks and environmental and labor law deregulation, and they assumed Trump would bail them out like he did last time. Most farmers aren’t the folk heroes of country music anymore. They’re millionaires.

I'm a farmer, and I'm always surprised when people say we were "lied to" about what Trump would do to us. We weren't! US farmers knew Trump planned another trade war, and that it would hurt our businesses. And a lot of farmers just voted for him anyway.

Want to know why? Get ready for real talk on wealth and entitlement in agriculture. Today's farm country isn't the same common-sense place that so many Americans' grandparents left behind.