NBC News spoke to 13 farmers across Iowa this week. Eleven voted for Trump in the past and still largely back him, hoping “to God,” as one put it, “that he follows through” on his promises by the end of his term.
That’s the tongue in cheek response. But I think they were very happy to buy up enormous amounts of Iowa pork at competitive rates. And I suspect more than a few CCP bureaucrats are incredibly annoyed at how US racism and fear mongering gets in the way of any economic cooperation
A lot of these farms are getting bought up and consolidated under an increasingly rarified group of oligarchs.
And a lot of the lay voters are in it for the culture war shit - hating migrants and bombing Iran and beating China (the industry’s biggest buyer).
China is very quietly executing the “Never interrupt your enemy when they are a making a mistake” strategy.
That’s the tongue in cheek response. But I think they were very happy to buy up enormous amounts of Iowa pork at competitive rates. And I suspect more than a few CCP bureaucrats are incredibly annoyed at how US racism and fear mongering gets in the way of any economic cooperation