Trumps base is starting to erode.

[Yonadav]

One of the bigger problems here is that a lot of people who don't know what they are talking about keep saying that a lot of other people who don't know what they are talking about are stupid. Talking about how stupid other people are is just so much fun, but it won't make you smarter.

In December, China resumed purchasing US soybeans. Their embargo on US soybeans wasn't working out. They were paying much smaller suppliers premium prices, while the normal buyers from those smaller suppliers paid the US market price.

Most of the low US market price was not due to the tariffs. Most of the low US market price is due to bumper crops in the US and Brazil. The problem was exacerbated by many US farmers storing their beans, hoping for a higher price later. They did this because of news about Argentina's crop failure. They thought that maybe Brazil wasn't going to have a bumper crop. Brazil is having a bumper crop, so the bet did not pay off.

Blaming Trump's tariffs for farmer's problems is more politically motivated than reality motivated. There are a lot of people who have political motivation to place the blame on Trump. A very ignorant segment of the left and big business are very strange bedfellows on this issue. I say 'a very ignorant segment of the left' because most of the left is not opposed to a trade confrontation with China. On the left, we have been pushing for a trade confrontation with China for several years. If you are on the left, then you support a trade confrontation with China. If you are opposed to it just to oppose Trump, then you are just a silly person who will betray your own values just spite someone that you don't like.

Trump is not the person that I would have chosen to lead any confrontation with anyone, ever. But I do acknowledge that it might not have been possible to start a confrontation with China without someone like Trump. Why? Because Republicans would have torn someone like Obama to shreds if he would have initiated a trade confrontation with China. The Republicans are almost unanimously opposed to trade war with China. Most support for a trade war with China comes from the Democratic side. This is why Democrats picked the wall and immigration as their battle, rather than the trade war with China. On the trade war with China, they are silent. They don't want to sound like they are supporting Trump in anything. But they aren't going to fight against trade war with China very hard, because too many Democrats support it. Almost no Republicans support it. But they have abdicated all party power to Trump in the face of a relentless Democratic assault.

So Democrats are largely silent about the trade war with China. The Republicans are largely silent about the trade war with China. But the media keeps trying to make a story out of the trade war with China. Hmm. I wonder why that might be? A lot of very powerful business men do not like the trade war with China. And they have been buying up all of the newspapers for the past several years. And powerful businesses have really perfected the art of messaging over the past several decades. And news networks and newspapers are fantastic tools for messaging. So opposition to a trade war with China comes primarily from big business, the media, and libtards. The libtards are being duped by the first two. They think that they are on the left, but they don't know what the left is. They are stooges who are extremely susceptible to messaging.