Source: The Erick Erickson Show
by Eric-Woods Erickson
“The President of the United States chose to start a trade war, convincing his supporters that other countries were onerously taxing American imports, ignoring the special exemptions made for the United States in many of the laws. Those other nations have responded by buying elsewhere. China, the largest buyer of American soybeans, has decided to snub our farmers. So now you and I will pay American farmers for the soybeans they cannot sell because of the President’s trade policy. ‘But they’ll use the tariff money,’ you say. Except they cannot under American law. … The President will instead find money in the Department of Agriculture budget that he can divert from other purposes and give it to the farmers who would prefer to sell the crops they grew, but now cannot because of the President’s stupid tariffs. Well done, everybody.” (10/03/25)