Working people, and the poor, overwhelmingly voted for President Trump. Democrats seemed puzzled that The Deplorables they despise would vote for a candidate who offered lower costs of living. 'Red states use more government assistance' they jeered.

That's the problem. As a former poor person, an organic farmer living in poverty before President Clinton made it a government-endorsed grift as a gift for progressive elites, I know cost is everything. Progressives on Twitter think a dollar is only a dollar. To poor people, it matters. 

A whole lot of farms are in a difficult position. They have an asset - on paper - but nearly half of the 2,100,000 million family farms, and farming in America is nearly all family farms despite what Democrats like NIH Secretary Robert Kennedy II claim, only make enough profit to pay their taxes.

Would you work if you paid 100% taxes?

Well, they do. Most farms need to have at least one family member who double-shifts working outside the home, to afford the health insurance that rose 400% for us so that government could give it for free to 700,000 who couldn't get health insurance. But then enrolled 49,000,000 to get Americans reliant on it and also gave it to an unknown number of illegal immigrants.



Of course poor people voted for change. They don't want more government handouts, they want government to stop creating inflation by printing off money to hand to 16,000,000 government employees - and then adding even more government employees before the 2024 election to artificially boost employment numbers. They voted for change despite America's richest people giving Vice-President Harris a campaign war chest 300% larger than Trump's that was used to tell them how great the stock market was.

Now imagine their pain when a former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer is placed in charge of the National Institutes of Health by President Trump, and immediately convenes a panel of unhinged activists without any experience or expertise and declares that American farmers are part of the problem.

That is what happened with Secretary Kennedy's weird cult members and the MAHA Commission initial assessment. They list American farms as part of the problem and want Shamanistic beliefs about growing food and Gaia as the solution.

If their attacks on farmers are allowed to continue, Republicans won't just lose Congress in 2026, they will lose the White House for a generation. Kennedy sees Right-Wing Conspiracies everywhere, from cell phones to vaccines to food, but attacking agriculture is as stupid as attacking the military or announcing he's shutting down natural gas and replacing it with windmills. Food, like energy and defense, is a strategic resource. Sri Lanka taught the world what will happen if government actually believes Kennedy or Zen Honeycutt or Vani Hari or Joe Mercola or any of the uninformed zealots Kennedy has in his ear.

Republicans don't want to do to Trump what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did to her not-desired choice, President Obama, in 2009 and cut his legs out from underneath him early, so House Committee on Agriculture Chairman GT Thompson and Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman John Boozman were measured in their response after reading the MAHA Commission initial report.

“We share President Trump’s vision for a healthier nation; however, we are troubled by the initial findings of the MAHA Commission Assessment and their impact on America’s farmers and ranchers. As we engage in this important dialogue, we must move forward in a manner that avoids undermining the very systems that allow American farmers to produce the safest, most abundant, and affordable food in the world. It is imperative that we do not stray from the risk-based and scientific processes set forth by Congress."

People are fat. Farming and food coloring and vegetable oil have nothing to do with people who eat too much any more than you can blame a Cerveza bottler for alcoholics. We didn't slash cigarette smoking by government mandating more expensive Organic Tobacco or with more taxes, we did it with education and literacy. Greater literacy about the harms of smoking is why our smoking deaths are half of Europe, not making cigarettes more expensive.  We cannot Make America Healthy Again by letting anti-science activists send food costs back to the 1930s, when costs were so high income we could only afford meat once per week.

Everyone gets a grace period and Kennedy can do no wrong in the eyes of the President. For now. It would be a huge mistake for Secretary Kennedy to believe that makes him right.