he s playing on fault lines and fears. now you think he s going to be able to say, america, let s all come together and see our mutual course forward? he s never said anything like that. well, to use that particular talking point of a fault line, the fault line he can create is between us and an unfair trading partner or former trading partner of china. the other thing he can do on another front is he can push the democrats in congress to ratify the deal, the new nafta deal, which would bring hundreds of millions of dollars of relief to dairy farmers in battle ground states such as michigan, pennsylvania, minnesota, and i believe iowa as well. you know the problem with the nafta deal, i don t believe in congress not doing its job. i don t believe in the politics of opposition. i think it was a mistake when mcconnell did it. i don t think you should see the democrats do it either. however, nafta, the deal that he may make with abe right now, if he s taking you back to basically neut
democrats do it either. however, nafta, the deal that he may make with abe right now, if he s taking you back to basically neutral, i would argue that the new deal with canada, mexico and the u.s. is better for the u.s. in some ways than the old one was, but it s a close call. and it took a lot of time and a lot of political pain to get something that might be better. with abe in japan, he took those farmers back to net neutral where they were with ttp. he thought there was political gain for him in blowing something up. what he put back together wasn t that great. how does he make his case to the people that he can be better? what i will agree with you ais we need not have trade struggles with our allies. now is the time to rally our allies from canada this is your opening. i take your point.
him. one point of context. during the election was he polling well with noncollege he was polling well. that was the number one sign. there were more noncollege white folks in the electorate than you might think. which is good news for trump. he was looking at the poll numbers, that group is good for him. i m not completely convinced. what s your finishing point? we ve seen something like this before. there was a farm crisis that occurred in the midwest in 1988. in the lead up to the election. if you look nationally, reagan in 84 to bush in 88, republicans won both of those. look at this trend in iowa. reagan won that state by 7 in 1984. the farm crisis, he won by 10. farmers do not like those they perceive is against them. the farm crisis could be a big deal for trump come 2020. we just saw trump tried to make some leverage with farmers by cutting a deal with abe in japan. but it only takes them net to
as the fundamental proposition. the fundamental proposition for you is whether or not this president has the ability to rally anyone. he has about division. he s playing on fault lines and fears. now, you think he s going to be able to say, america, let s all come together and see our mutual course forward? he s never said anything like that. to use that particular talking point of a fault line, the fault line he can create is between us and an unfair trading partner or former trading partner of china. the other thing he can do, he can push the democrats in congress to ratify the deal, the new nafta deal, which would bring hundreds of millions of dollars of relief to dairy farmers in battleground states such as michigan, pennsylvania, minnesota and i believe iowa as well. the problem with the nafta deal, i don t believe in the politics of opposition. i think it was a mistake when mcconnell did it. i don t think you should see the
varietials there. it creates a dynamic for what you permit to happen every year gets much worse. how much do you invest and how big a deal is it to stop it? i don t know how big a deal it is to stop it. but 20 million goes a lot farther in an area like brazil than it does, say, in the developed world, in the fully developed countries like you have in europe and the united states, because the people involved, the people who are resisting this are indigenous. there are tribes people that have lived there for centuries and they re not they do not cotton, pun intended, to this activity of burning the forest for future agriculture. the idea of what s going on there, bill, this is clear-cutting to make room, that s not true any more. they burned way past what they intended. apparently it s gotten out of hand as you pointed out. the season is unusually dry. one thing has led to another.