‘Chairman Mao’: Trump accused of ‘socialism’ after announcing $15 billion payoff plan to ‘our great patriot farmers’ as tariff war explodes

President Donald Trump continued his new habit of daily massive tweetstorms on Tuesday, starting at 6:15 AM and again focusing on his failed China tariffs “policy.” Trump has levied huge tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. from China – tariffs paid by Americans – and China in response announced it will impose tariffs on U.S. goods going in to China, escalating Trump’s tariff war.

As USA Today’s G. William Hoagland, who grew up on a farm, writes, “agriculture and farm families in the bread basket states have borne the brunt of the trade war.”

That war has spanned two years now, and it’s crushing many farms.

View the complete May 14 article by David Badash of the New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.