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Sledge Taylor is a Mississippi farmer. He grows corn. He voted for Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. He's still wearing the MAGA hat. And Trump's tariffs just destroyed his crop year.China is one of the largest buyers of American corn on earth. Or at least it was. After Trump's escalating trade war, China stopped buying. Sledge Taylor's corn — already in the ground, already invested in — has nowhere to go. The federal bailout he was promised? It covered roughly twenty percent of what he actually lost last year. Twenty cents on the dollar. For a man who voted three times for the guy who caused the problem.So why is Sledge Taylor still wearing the MAGA hat? It's simple. It's not about economics. It never was. It's about identity. It's about tribe. It's about racism and xenophobia dressed up as fiscal conservatism. And as long as the cuts are aimed at someone else — immigrants, the disabled, federal workers — the hat stays on.Until the day it isn't aimed at someone else. Until the day China stops buying your corn. Then you find out the leopards don't ask who voted for them.This is the materialist reality of the MAGA economy. Tariffs that were supposed to bring back American manufacturing instead destroyed American agriculture. A bailout that doesn't cover the bill. A farmer who keeps voting against his own livelihood because the alternative would mean admitting he was wrong.Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.Watch: https://youtu.be/ollbuus2IFM