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In reply to the discussion: 'I think Trump needs to show his face': Laid-off miners losing faith... [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)agricultural products. What is doing is naked self-serving, he knows that if he loses the rurals, he is done. But urban and Surburban voters that voted for him are getting screwed on the deal, with higher prices for consumer goods and high food prices (if farmers have to sell their grain at what they can get, feed prices SHOULD drop and meat prices SHOULD follow, but with Trump providing an endless backstop to his base, the economic dynamics won't play out as they should). Urban and Surburban Trump voters will vote to continue the raw deal they are getting if they vote for him on 2020.
I really think that China has found the key to dealing with Trump. Squeeze the hell out of US farmers and allow the yuan to devalue. I think by calling-in some debt China can destroy him, but the debt call-in would be a act just short of declaring war.
Add to the mix Great Britain headed toward a sure hard Brexit, then the circumstances for China turning the screws on that bastardized until he is defeated by an enraged populace are all falling into place.