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The US Congress lost its last farmer-representative when Jon Tester (D-MT) lost this month to Tim Sheehy, a Republican who parachuted in from Minnesota.
by blueyes 2y ago
The US Congress lost its last farmer-representative when Jon Tester (D-MT) lost this month to Tim Sheehy, a Republican who parachuted in from Minnesota.
- Freedom2 2y agoAny thoughts on why farmer-friendly constituents would vote in a parachute candidate? I'm not familiar with the region.
- blueyes 2y agoMontana is MAGA. It went from purple to red during the great self-sorting of COVID. So Tester was in a weak seat which he held onto in the last election because the libertarians split the right. This time, the GOP poured in many millions to sway the vote. And now Montana is governed by a bunch of Californians and Minnesotans.
- jmye 2y agoBecause the media they consume has a vested interest in lying to them and bankrupting them, and they lack media-literacy to see it. Because it’s really easy to be told that immigrants are stealing from you, and it’s really hard to explain that tariffs and trade wars will destroy soy bean farms. Because it’s really easy to lie to people and make them scared and angry.
- sijourneyweezer 2y agoDo you have a source for this by any chance? What about Brad Finstad?
- blueyes 2y agoSorry, I should have specified he was the last in the Senate.