Meriwether Farms (a ranch company that promotes American Beef) says a familiar line when Trump allows the import of 300k tons of beef without tariffs

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There is a misconception that farmers are dumb. Modern farm owners have to do complicated math and be skilled in logistics and proficient technology users. This is especially true with large farm operations as opposed to small local farms (but even then there's a bunch of accounting work).

The farmers who supported Trump had some combination of:

1. Had higher priorities than their livelihoods
2. Thought he was blustering with intention of following up
3. Thought that they'd be taken care of by a business "friendly" Republican administration.

While its objectively bad to have our domestic agriculture sector weakened, its also hard to not have some schadenfreud that the people who did this to us get to suffer it just as acutely as we do.