There's an enormous political opportunity to hold the Trump administration accountable for policies that are decimating rural America—his trade wars, the tax breaks for monopolists, climate denialism, attacks on health care—but this is being squandered at the national level.
I am proud to support candidates like J.D., but frustrated that rural and small town America has yet to find a champion in the national Democratic party, who have written it off as a political loss in a stunning failure of vision and leadership.
One small taste of this failure—America's farmers could be enlisted as allies in the fight on climate change, brought in as partners on green energy and sequestration programs that at the same time moved U.S. farms away from monoculture and extractive corporate monopoly
