With President Donald Trump escalating his trade war with China, farmers in the United States are worried about how hard they will be hit by retaliatory tariffs from Beijing. Many American farmers have already faced the effects of a 25% tariff that the Chinese government imposed in 2018. And farmers are not a group of Americans that Republicans can afford to alienate, as Trump’s base is largely white and rural.
Agriculture, however, is hardly the only area in which Trump and other Republicans are bad for the GOP’s base. Trump paints himself as a staunch defender of Rural America, but when Republicans attack everything from the U.S. Postal Service to health care, they aren’t doing rural voters a favor.
Here are some ways in which Trump and other Republicans are bad news for Rural America.
View the complete May 14 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.