Farmers: We Did Not Vote for This

Friday, March 14, 2025

The nonstop chaos that President Donald Trump is delivering with his erratic tariff policies and spending cuts is already hurting many farmers who voted for him in the 2024 presidential election.

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"We're just in such a state of shock. We just don't really even know how to respond to all this. We thought that this was sacred and really untouchable," said West Virginia farmer Jennifer Gilkerson. "Everyone thinks all farmers voted for this, but we did not vote for this."

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-- Robson Fletcher (@robsonfletcher.com) March 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM

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But you did vote for this.

You were warned; you had all of the information you needed.

You want out? Stop voting MAGA.

It does not give a crap about you.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-14 08:50 AM | Reply

YES YOU DID.

10000%.

You're a special kind of stupid if you think a billionaire is looking out for you.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-14 10:05 AM | Reply

Veterans protesting, farmers, senior citizens and CEOs becoming uneasy? Hmm, maybe the worm is starting to turn against DonOLD Dementia?:

Focus group: Trump swing voters in Michigan have buyers' remorse

Most Michigan swing voters in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said that although they voted for President Trump in November, they have objections, frustrations and fears about his behavior since he returned to power.

Zoom in: A focus group is not a statistically significant sample like a poll, but the voters' reactions suggest that Trump risks overplaying his mandate to reshape government, trade and international alliances.

www.axios.com

#3 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-14 10:08 AM | Reply

MAGA Farmers: We're Actually Dumber Than The Stereotypes.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 10:12 AM | Reply

I live in an area with big Farmers for Trump signs.

Not a single one has come down.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-14 10:25 AM | Reply

Nor will these farmers leave the republican party. Red counties will remain red. Some might turn a little pinker but they won't flip.

The GOP simply has to run someone next time that distances himself from the obvious policies that are hurting horribly right now and those folks will still show up on election day and vote for the GOP.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 10:32 AM | Reply

-Most Michigan swing voters in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said that although they voted for President Trump in November, they have objections, frustrations and fears about his behavior since he returned to power.

They're still voting for a republican next time......assuming we are talking about rural red county residents. The ag community.

"objections, frustrations, and fears".....okay, fair enough. But they are still voting for a republican next time.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 10:35 AM | Reply

Agreed, most farmers vote Republican and aren't swing voters. Unlike folks in the focus group who are and whose vote could flip:

"The online panels, conducted Tuesday night, were made up of Michigan voters who backed former President Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump last November. Eight were self-described independents, four were Republicans and one was a Democrat."

#8 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-14 10:43 AM | Reply

"They're still voting for a republican next time......assuming we are talking about rural red county residents. The ag community."

No, we're not necessarily. Sorry I confused the issue. I shouldn't have put the focus group info in this thread, so I started a new one about it.

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-14 10:45 AM | Reply

"objections, frustrations, and fears".....okay, fair enough. But they are still voting for a republican next time."

^
Solid gold explanation for why Trump loves the poorly educated.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 11:55 AM | Reply

Understood. Agreed.

He loves you too, snoofy. You work hard for him.

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 12:37 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by Dbt2

As I was driving on a two lane highway thru a rural area last year, I saw more than one decrepit farmhouse with rusty appliances on the porch and other junk on the lawn, flying huge Trump flags by the highway, hung from a backhoe, with floodlights to light it at night.

My thought was, why would these people vote against their own best interests?

We sold a 120 acre farm we owned just a couple of years ago. The people who farmed it for us grew 75% soybeans and 25% wheat. It's fortunate we don't own it anymore. Trump's actions are hurting farmers "bigly."

#12 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-14 02:00 PM | Reply

China and other importers of U.S. crops have turned to other countries for their imports now ...

#13 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-14 02:01 PM | Reply

12: We moved a couple years ago from 20+ years in central Appalachia. That's about 70 percent of the population.

Of the people who I had some respect for who were still toting the GOP line when I left, most were just unrepentant good ol' boys whose families had been there for generations and they were lawyers or business owners -- sizeable small businesses. Rarely a doctor.

And a smattering of people would still like to be liberal Republicans -- "conservative fiscally, socially liberal" -- but they were lying very low. And if they were voting D, it wasn't showing up in the polls.

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-14 03:33 PM | Reply

The orange diaper sniper has always looked out for farmers.

www.forbes.com

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-14 04:43 PM | Reply

40 years of brainwashing from right wing talk radio, Fox "news," all mainstream newspapers, even the alleged liberal media cable news outlets has created a separate reality for rural Americans, to the point that they believe that they didn't vote for exactly the things that they were told were going to happen. They just vibed their way into the nightmare. Because they refuse to engage with liberals, or have reasonable, sane conversations about politics, they are doomed to find out. Enjoy the next 4 years, folks, you totally voted for this!

#16 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-03-14 05:01 PM | Reply