Did he really say that if China makes things rough for US farmers theyd suck it up?

[nolabear]

“They want to go after me. They’ll hit farmers. But they’ll suck it up. They’re patriots.”

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I hope he did and I now wonder if any of those republican farmers will vote republican again

No, I dont wonder.

They may refuse to vote for rumpus deletraitorous but they will continue to vote for the party that is literally, literally trying to kill them.

[Afromania]

5. always and forever. just keep telling em they are the salt of the earth and

yada ,yada ,yada then pick their pockets and away you go.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. If, by "they," Trump means Monsanto, Cargill, ADM & Pioneer will suck up their family farms. Yes!

[thbobby]

3. Chemical Farmers

was my dad's description of many farmers. I will not buy produce at a farmer's market because there is no way to tell what pesticides and/or herbicides have been used on them. Farming is more profitable when done by chemicals rather than labor. Less worry about weeds, insects, and even tillage. When farms are run as corporations, profit is main motive. Farmers trend republican because they do not want regulations to interfere with toxic chemicals that make farming profitable. My dad was a farmer.

[KT2000]

6. thank you!

Another factor is the corporate sales people who give the farm supply store employees their talking points as outrage, that is then passed on to the farmers. They have served as a kind of FOX news for decades. "These chemicals are absolutely safe and farmers will go broke without them. Democrats will destroy you."

[meadowlark5]

4. And I bet a lot of those mindless trump supporting drones will

They'll be told by Fox and Rush that #MAGA might be painful along the way. Tear it down to bring it back bigger and better. They'll take their losses and maybe even file for bankruptcy because it's a sacrifice that must be made to #MAGA

The blind loyalty is disturbing in these people.

[left-of-center2012]

7. Let's have a farmers parade !

Tractors, combines, balers, oh my!

[Quemado]

8. The phenomenon of culture politics

Thomas Frank talks about the phenomenon of culture politics in several of his books. A low-income conservative voter (farmer) affected by adverse trade policies won't necessarily be angry at a politician as long as that politician pays lip service to a culture issue (busing, un-Christian art, abortion, etc.) during a campaign.

The sad part about this arrangement is that once an election is won by the politician who paid the lip service, culture issues take a back seat, and policies that tend to disfavor the low-income conservative voter are prioritized. Even though the low-income conservative voter doesn't alway get a culture issue victory, he or she remains faithful to the politician who paid the lip service during the campaign, in spite of being economically hurt by the policies of that politician.