"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."

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"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."

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"This week, the New York Times ran an image of a farmer on the front page. ...

The story is about how Trump’s tariff policies are affecting the very farmers in Iowa who voted for him. ...

In 2017, I asked a farmer how he felt about voting for Trump, even though Republican policies were hurting his business."

~ Lyz Lenz

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