When did that come about, and why?
The farm bills of the sixties a d seventies were loaded with subsidies lauded to the public as intended to save the family farm, but written in fact so that primarily the two corporate entities I mentioned were able to collect on those subsidies and many family farms were excluded.
Corporate welfare on the part of Republicans was the point of my post.
Your post is the pretty predictable fall out from that and few Republicans in the period I referenced noticed or cared. The graft from lobbyists made a few powerful Republican congressmen happy and the party was not interested in the few whistleblowers of the period.
Are Democrats doing the same thing now? Surely. But the Republican Party installed this particular vomitous mess and the damage has been lasting.
Do you have names of these 1960’s RINOs?
Farmers have voted demoncrap since the 1800’s.