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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe farmers still love Trump. Go figure.
A Farm Journal Pulse survey conducted Monday shows that 79% of farmers now approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing, versus 74% who said they approved in the Pulse poll conducted on June 11. That approval rating includes 53% who strongly approve and 26% who somewhat approve.
This makes no sense to me at all.
jpak
(41,759 posts)I sure can.
idjits.
yup
Turin_C3PO
(14,047 posts)Considering all Trump has done to screw them, his approval should be underwater. Racism must be a factor in their support.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)MontanaFarmer
(630 posts)and you hit it EXACTLY on the head. Part of the pathology that would lead someone to support this clown includes an absolute lack of ability or desire to admit one made a mistake, ever. It's tragic, too, because our dependence on the government as farmers should have continued their tradition of agrarian collectivism and progressive thinking. For whatever reason (lack of fairness doctrine/rw radio is a big one), rural America has gone a different direction.
Timewas
(2,196 posts)With something around 5 Billion might sway them a tad
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)If farmers had to actually sell their produce to make money, it would be another story altogether.
Mendocino
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|stillcool
(32,626 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)It is an utter waste of taxpayer dollars.
If they cant make a go of it like regular businesses, then go bankrupt.
The business I work got hammered HARD by Dumps tariffs. We havent gotten any relief.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)that's more important than going broke I guess.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Either way, they are going to get completely screwed. It's funny how people will destroy their own lives just to make sure that the lives of others are destroyed as well.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Fuck them
JI7
(89,264 posts)makes up for anything else he did that they might not have liked.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)They do have a reputation to uphold.
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)my state. And they get off on those fucking trucks with extra sized tail pipes and the black exhaust they spew. They think it's fun to choke everyone else to death so long as they can be assholes with impunity.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)mathematic
(1,440 posts)I'm sure it's a great surprise to find that racial and religious animosity actually explains far more than class, wealth inequality, or poverty.
Turns out in all those decades where people were "voting against their interests" by voting for republicans that they weren't doing any such thing.
diva77
(7,656 posts)both AM & FM dial on radio; right now the big message is that the lack of sunspots is now causing global cooling and that we shouldn't raise taxes to address the issue.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Several years ago, on an unrelated search, I read Southern Civil War newspaper accounts at different stages of the war. There was a certain, quiet, unyielding, quiet, stubborn, and somewhat nasty sense towards the end, - the trump 20% reminds of those readings.