Things are bad for farmers. President Donald Trump’s mass deportations are decimating their workforce, his trade wars are restricting key markets like China, and his inflationary policies are making harvesting less profitable.

None of this is new. We saw much of it during Trump’s first term. Yet, in 2024, farmers doubled down and backed him even harder. He’s repaid that loyalty with industry-wide devastation.

You’d think they’d take their lumps. After all, the GOP is supposedly the “personal responsibility” party. They love to talk about the “heartland,” about “real America” pulling itself up by its bootstraps, about “rugged individuality.” They sneer at the cities that subsidize them and demonize Black and brown Americans all while obsessing over which bathroom someone uses.

So they go

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