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Trump's Bullshit Trade Tantrums

I'm reading "Confederates in the Attic" currently. It's serving as a reminder that there is a yuge chasm between southern metro areas and the rural or small town South.

Phenomenal book. Read it as a part of Professor Gillespie’s Memory Culture and the South seminar.
 
I'm reading "Confederates in the Attic" currently. It's serving as a reminder that there is a yuge chasm between southern metro areas and the rural or small town South.

That's a great book, although it's been around 15 years since I last read it. And the chasm has only gotten wider, as Southern metro areas are even more diverse and liberal than they were when the book was published (around 20 years ago, I think), while rural areas are often even more militantly Republican than they were back then (and the manufacturing-based economy in a lot of these small towns has collapsed over the last two decades as well, which has also increased the urban/rural chasm).
 
That's a great book, although it's been around 15 years since I last read it. And the chasm has only gotten wider, as Southern metro areas are even more diverse and liberal than they were when the book was published (around 20 years ago, I think), while rural areas are often even more militantly Republican than they were back then (and the manufacturing-based economy in a lot of these small towns has collapsed over the last two decades as well, which has also increased the urban/rural chasm).

When I said that, I was thinking more about NC than any other state. VA is a bit different because there aren't too many down and out places in VA. The Valley from Winchester to Blacksburg is mostly doing well, and the conservatism there is partly just being rural, mountain white and partly because there are a ton or religious folks there, including a lot of Menonites and Amish. The only real down and out places in VA are Danville, Martinsville and the SW coalfields. But NC seems a lot more of the growing metro areas v. down and out rural areas and smaller towns. And the small town he focused on in NC was Salisbury, which perfectly encapsulated that idea, although I guess Food Lion helps keep that afloat.
 
Trump tweeted today that his great trade deal with Mexico was a great farm deal for US Agriculture, and on Saturday he tweeted (in all caps) that "MEXICO HAS AGREED TO IMMEDIATELY BEGIN BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT FROM OUR GREAT PATRIOT FARMERS!" The problem is that there apparently was no discussion of Mexico increasing agricultural imports from the US.

Even Bloomberg News isn't buying it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-08/mexico-never-agreed-to-farm-deal-with-u-s-contradicting-trump
 
 
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I'm also a big fan of his Kenny Loggins Jesus.
 
He owns an F-150 Raptor? Sounds like someone on welfare with a microwave! Can't be doing that badly!

I read the article, and he's a classic Trumpite - rural, older, white, hates "Coastal Elites" and government regulations, yet has no problems taking government agricultural subsidies paid for by taxes from those same Coastal Elites, and is apparently quite willing to take yet more government goodies (Socialism!) to help him survive Trump's trade wars, which he admits is killing his farming business, and there's the white Jesus framed on the wall. It's also a classic Trumpite article in that, while he is starting to have some doubts about Dear Leader, his brother and wife and most everyone else in his little burg are still 100% in support. Like many Trumpites, he hints that he might support the right kind of Democrat, like Montana's governor, in next year's election, but it's hard to believe that he still won't go for Trump in the end, like just about everyone else in town.
 
He owns an F-150 Raptor? Sounds like someone on welfare with a microwave! Can't be doing that badly!

He also lost $700,000. If you could lose $700,000, you had $700,000 and probably much more. This is a rich farmer using inherited land taking taxpayer money because his candidate is screwing us over as many of us predicted.
 
It’s easy to not feel sorry for these people, unfortunately.
 
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