Rural Trump Voters Won’t Regret Their Vote Until Democrats Fight for Them

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April 23, 2025

Trump has promised to refer to the opioid epidemic and restore small cities for health and well -being. The president betrayed those who trusted him.

California farmers face an uncertain financial future, as Trump administration tariffs threaten exports of fruits and vegetables of fruits and vegetables and increase prices for agricultural equipment.(Justin Sullivan / Getti Image)

The damage caused only in the first three months of the Trump administration can fill the National Archive – calling that the department still exists. Many of these steps, including Kilmar Abreg Garcia’s deportation in Salvadora Gulag, were cruel and completely unfair. And yet, the public support of Trump, though declining, remains stubbornly high among rural and working people. Some parts of this support come from his ability to do as revenge from liberal elites, and a strike against the “falsified system” that helped to create – a system that undermined values and livelihoods.

What will it take to stop Trump? It is difficult to predict how many people who supported Trump address him from the deportation of Garcia, student activists and others. These fighting must continue, and we hope that more and more Americans will wake up to dismantle democracy. But there will always be those who move more negatively on their daily lives. Loss of work, hospital and school closing, a huge spike in the value of goods need-these are perennial transactions that experience the daily news cycle.

As we suggested in our The February columnReactly responding to each radical idea, Trump only ends up the left as defenders of the institution – a very systemic tens of millions of Americans who blame their troubles. We also believe that protesting on bad things is still only in us, and that a positive vision of improving the life of rural and working people should be the front and center.

What said if it is do Come loudly complain about the influence of Trump’s chaotic nihilism, we must focus on actions that have hurt a large number of people, many of whom voted for Trump. We need to empathize with and recognize their struggle and help to send it to the remorse of buyers: “Trump has betrayed us”, the basis of the case, while “hands!” The taste of the desire to restore the status -ku.

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To stop Trump and cancel the attack on our economy and democracy, we need to redistribute some of our outrages to emphasize how Trump’s actions actually worsen a rigged system for people who put him in office: farmers, small businesses, coal miners, factory and blue collars, consumers. As long as our protest usually includes betrayal of such people, we have virtually no chance of building a coalition of wide resistance necessary to cancel the catastrophic course.

With that in mind, we offer some examples of the betrayal of Trump rural and working people we urge left prioritizing, as well as emphasizing the policy that cancel these treason.

Farmers, the main constituency for Trump, have been some of the worst actions since the post. For medium -sized and large farmers tariffs have pushed the wide anxiety that they are squeezed from both ends: They face higher costs on materials such as Canadian Kalin and steel for agricultural machinery combined with potentially dramatic markets for soy, pork and other goods.

In addition, the USAID dismantling is almost $ 2 billion Lost sales for American farmers. For small farmers, stop the farm program at school and local food purchase program for food banks Eliminated more than $ 1 billion In the markets of fresh products, undermining efforts to provide healthy food to children and people in need.

And for the farmers of all sizes, the suspension of contract payments to the farmers who started preserving, building soil, renewable energy sources and other improvements in their farms. At least 30,000 of these farmersWho spent tens of thousands of dollars based on USDA commitments will now be in debt, it is unclear whether they will be promised if you materialize.

But farmers are not the only rural people who are screwed.

Employees and owners of small businesses are increasingly experiencing their livelihoods. Even before the last round of tariffs, Confidence in a small business He abandoned all three months of Trump’s presidency, only every fifth small business owners said she expected to improve sales and business conditions in the near future. This uncertainty means smaller investments and hiring by existing small businesses and less new business startups.

For employees in large companies, the growth of trade unions, noticed in the Biden administration, is facing Wall anti -conductive action from Trump. These include NLRB officers, such as Jennifer Oberzo, replaced by Crystal Caret, a lawyer whose firm is sad, anti -Union Tesla and Amazon. Trump also ruled out a $ 17 $ 17 minimum wage for federal contractors, working on the complete dismantling of trade unions representing federal workers.

Veterans. Who is more likely to live in rural areaswill be severely affected by the double knee for Medicaid and Veterans (VA). The New York Times It is reported that in addition to dismissal, VA was launched by a sharp return policy to work. VA psychiatrists, who have been spent by veterans for decades, are now suddenly conducting their classes in open cabins that have no privacy. Many of them throw in protest.

Fourteen million (Almost every fifth) Rural adults are counting on the Medicaid program, Republicans seeks to cut $ 880 billion (Approximately 20 percent programs) over the next decade. Already fight rural hospitals and clinics Count on Medicaid to stay afloat. Over the past 10 years, Nearly 200 rural hospitals closedLeaving their patients who were in one hundred and more miles from the nearest ambulance. Most rural hospitals who remain open have eliminated their maternal wards. Cutting costs on Medicaid will cause further closure of the hospital and the voltage is no longer Addiction. Mental healthand Indian health Services.

And then there are millions of consumers who are just fighting to bring the ends closer. They were affected not only by the constant rise in price – this inflation rate Since Trump’s accession, but by eliminating women’s payments from banks and credit card companies – from 2.4 to 3 percent. Trump administration joins the Senate controlled by the Republican Evasion from USD 8 Set by Biden’s term, allowing companies to re -charge excessive fees for people who do not pay on time. The lower average incomes of rural and work classes make high prices and fees for unhealthy banking, the more difficult to manage.

Donald Trump wore rural America 40-point stock. He promised to be forgotten by the Americans that he did not exceed the system, turn to the apioid epidemic and restore small cities for health and well -being. Even more than most of his predecessors, Trump betrayed him who trusted him. The appeal of the tidal wave of destruction, which he unleashed, requires that we did to do what we had to do for a long time: open our doors for farmers, miners, truckers, home cleaners, automakers and workers – white, brown and black – who lifted it above us. We do not just need them to return Congress in 2026. We need to save our country.

Chaos and the cruelty of the Trump administration reach new lows each week.

Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” was inflicted by the world economy and created another constitutional crisis at home. Civilian officers continue to abduct the university students from the streets. The so-called “opponents” fly abroad in a mega-tour against the ruling of the courts. And SignalGate promises to become the first of many incompetence scandals that expose violent violence at the heart of the American Empire.

At the time when elite universities, powerful law firms and influential media capitulate Trump intimidation, Nation more determined than if -no one earlier to contain a powerful account.

In the last month, we have published a report on how Trump raises his mass deportation program to other countries, exposed the administration’s appeal to the laws to comply with his repressive agenda, and strengthened the votes of brave activists aimed at universities.

We also continue to tell the stories of those who retreat against Trump and Musk, whether on the streets in the growth of protest movements, in the town halls across the country or in critical state elections – for example, a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race – which gives a model of confrontation and prove that Musk cannot acquire our democracy.

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