💬 Opinion 3d ago · Eric Boehm

The Collapse of Farm Exports Is the Most Underappreciated Story in American Politics

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The Collapse of Farm Exports Is the Most Underappreciated Story in American Politics
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As President Donald Trump embarked on his plan to hike tariffs and escalate tensions with America's biggest trading partners, he offered an infamous bit of reassurance.
"Trade wars are good," Trump tweeted on March 2, 2018, "and easy to win."
More than eight and a half years later, both claims have proven to be untrue. And while much of the focus of Trump's trade wars has been on American manufacturing, it is actually American farmers who have been marched to the front lines. For them, Trump's t

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