The hits just keep on coming …
Such consolidation isn’t the only headache for farmers under the Trump administration. Some farm owners who depend on immigrant workers have concerns about Trump’s immigration policies, since they say they can’t find enough American citizens to fill their staffs. Agriculture industry groups also strongly opposed Trump’s trade restrictions on China, since the country is likely to retaliate with high tariffs of its own.
Make America Grovel Again
We absolutely need to respond to China’s economic predations.
Unfortunately with this mal-administration, we will do almost everything wrong in how best to respond. As with so much with trump, it’s all about the appearance.
His tough guy bluster and China’s full understanding on how to play him, will lead China to some facile accommodation that allows trump to have his “win” (see the lowering of Auto Tariffs; which won’t do much of increasing of US auto exports).
trump will then go about talking about the “great negotiator” and so forth, with likely leaving the US less able to confront China on the real and substantial economic issues that we need to.