I like Trump’s policies AND I like his style. He cracks me up.
This could have been a great article. It’s thoughtful and includes real reporting. The framing of the story is also great, both describing the place and people and framing of the narrative of supporting Trump because they support their communities. But then after all that setup and framing, the author gives the farmers a total of three quotes, none of which actually directly relates to the conclusion.
Abbreviated version: They gathered a bunch of hard working, both in job and within the community, who aren’t looking for freebies. They don’t like Trump’s style, but everyone else ignores their priorities in simply a fair market.
Cue liberals to talk about paying off some 30 year old’s schooling and doctoral dissertation how homophobic rural people are.
Farming ( .8% of GDP ) is really not that important. The GOP should start caring about line workers, blue collar workers and manufacturing which is 20+% of GDP and represents many, many more voters.
“Vernon County is one of the 23 counties that voted for then-President Barack Obama in 2012 and switched to Trump in 2016.”
I used to kick around Vernon County back in the day. My friends dad built a cottage there. Spent a lot of weekends up there pounding nails and such. Beautiful country, great hunting, and it’s inhabited by some solid salt of the earth folks.
We got to know a few of the neighbors and helped repair some fences when dairy cattle got loose. Folks up there have long memories when you do them a solid.
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The alternative to Trump is a Democrat who is OK with snipping the head off an 8 month old baby in the womb to sell it for research.
Trump addresses the things that are on the minds of ordinary Americans. Things that the others won’t even mention. There’s no fear in the guy. The rest are chicken sh, bought and paid for.
I live in Wisconsin, but I’m not a farmer. I have several close friends from church who do farm, and I’d never degrade them. They are among the most skilled, down to earth, always have your back, Christian guys I know. They live out their faith. That being said, I voted for Trump almost exclusively for one reason: Supreme Court pick on the table. His greatest and most long lasting achievement is likely to be moving the courts back to the right to where they are almost balanced. And it while I’ll vote of him again. Give Trump and the Turtle four more years and we’ll have jurisprudence of the kind our Founders envisioned.
I don’t know about anyone else but I voted FOR Trump. I was FOR him from the day he announced.
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Re: Trump’s Style: At first, he seemed gruff and brash. But, then when you see him in action among the wolves of the media and the Democrats, any person paying attention ought to realize he is just fighting back. That, in the opinion of the left, is not allowed. No one, no conservative, no Republican, has the right to fight back it seems. If you do, then you are brash and crude, vulgar.
They hate him, not only for his policies which favor American workers of all stripes, but also favor God-fearing people and life. None of those things endear Trump to the Democrats and news media. As for me, I love Trump more each day that he is my President and that he fights back.
or “...understand how long establishments within both parties have let them down...”
Yep, at some point both parties decided that they no longer had to listen to their voters.
It’s about our white hot seething hatred for YOU, Washington Establishment. We’d pull the lever for Satan himself if we thought that was what’s needed to dislodge you.
Tom Schaub, Ralph Petersheim, Donna Leum, Kris Amundson and Ben Klinkner are all sitting around a large conference table at the Westby Cooperative Creamery in this Vernon County town. There is a pot of coffee and an oversized box of doughnuts. The aroma that only bakery-fresh doughnuts can provide radiates throughout the room.
All four are dairy farmers.
It seems that someone needs a math refresher course!!!
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The reason a lot of us support Trump.... he is the real thing. No put on. We have 2 very wealthy men ... one is with the people and one has that distance about him... can’t connect with the real people out here.... one walked with the construction men while building his wealth and the other sat in his office and carried out his business.
Trump has the ability ... the charisma...to connect with the people.. the other one has difficulty even knowing the people and how life is outside of his wealthy life...
Trump does not do it the ordinary way...and criticized for it... the difference in Trump’s Presidency and the past Presidencies...is striking and good for the country and good for everyone.
Stop listening to the media.. stop letting the hate group sell a Trump that does not exist... Look at who he is and what he has been accomplishing.... and..
ENJOY THE JOURNEY... Trump is the best think to happen to our United States of America!
Is Trump a true conservative in the sense of the word? Does he project a fatherly figure in the manner of Dwight Eisenhower? Does he have the easy-going grace of Bush-41 or Bush-43?
A big fat resounding “NO!” to any of these things.
And. I. Do. Not. Care.
Donald J. Trump is unique, a primal force of nature, and a phenomenon of almost Biblical proportions. A billionaire with the common touch, he recognizes the common problems of having to do too much with too little, but more importantly, he proceeds to SOLVE those problems, not by throwing money at it, but at making it possible for more of us to rise to the point where the problems fade into insignificance.
Laissez les bons temps rouler,
That's why I voted for Trump. He just wasn't another faceless "face" that central casting picked out to play the role of president for the next four years.
Trump has got his rough edges but I don't care. I'd rather have him as an effective president, flawed as he is, instead of a flawless president who doesn't get anything done.
For a president, I don't want phony looks anymore. I want real action.
Unless the demoCLOWNS go along with it too, it is just more worthless, wishful thinking.
I wasn’t enamored with Trump’s style at first. I liked the fact that he hit back but found him too crude at times. I still think so sometimes but a lot more rarely now and I don’t mind nearly as much. That is because he has been great on policy, he has been great on results and because after having seen the depths to which his enemies in the deep state and MSM and Democrat Party will sink to get Trump at all costs - laws, democratic norms and common decency be damned - I am vastly more disgusted by them than I am by anything Trump says.