re: #217 HappyWarrior

I don’t know. It just seems to me that Trump definitely touched on resentment of immigrants. Republican base voters aren’t the only ones who can fall victim to xenophobia. I think you’re right about a lot of this though. Trump gave them easy answers rather than the complex ones HRC was offering and that’s probably why you ese some overlap with Bernie and Trump even though their economics are different.

About that, Wonkette has an article from the crapfest that was Trump’s visit to the Farm Bureau convention.

Interviewing a bunch of soybean farmers, the narrative is WALL and Trump is good for farmers.

The issue is how many farmers interviewed felt that way, and how much film was left on the cutting room floor of farmers saying “He’s ruining us, get that jerk out of there.”

They also have an interview with the one African-American all the networks pass around to weigh in on farms, Mr. John Boyd, Jr. of the National Black Farmers Association. He notes how bad this is for him personally, for others in his association, and for white farmers. He also discusses the structural racism which exists in the USDA from the days of Jim Crow to this day.
wonkette.com