It turns out you cannot eat pure political rhetoric when the trade war bill comes due.

[u/Cderouen8284]

Nothing screams rugged, independent free-market capitalism quite like begging the government for a multibillion-dollar bailout because your own preferred trade policies vaporized your customer base.

You voted to burn down the global grain market and are now stunned to discover you actually have to live inside the ashes. 
Broad tariff regimes inevitably trigger direct retaliatory duties on domestic agricultural exports, converting thriving family operations into federally dependent welfare cases overnight. Handing out billions in taxpayer-funded stopgap relief does not recover structural export market share; it simply forces the public to subsidize avoidable self-inflicted losses while multi-generational farms fold under the debt. 

[u/withomps44]

They don’t realize this isn’t a bug but a feature.

Project 2025 wants those farmers as cheap labor for the corporations who will come in and buy their now worthless bankrupt farms for pennies on the dollar. Once they have all of the peasants under their thumbs they will remove the tariffs and control agriculture.

[u/DoomedMaiden → u/withomps44]

Probably going to get far less free time than medieval peasants though under feudalism 2.0

[u/Crumpuscatz → u/DoomedMaiden]

The cheap labor won’t even be needed, corporate farms and automated equipment, that is the future. These former land owners will be lucky to get a farm management job paying $30,000 a year by the time this is all over but….they owned the libs