I read aloud your post to a group of young farmers last night in #StamfordTexas, @SecRollins. None of them were convinced that they were saved. I take very personally the idea of a “golden age” for rural America. I’ve dedicated my professional life to it, well before it was politically trendy, and to the derision of more than a few people I encountered in school. Rural America is not suffering from a malady caused by “woke,” “Biden,” or anyone’s short-term political malfeasance. The decline of rural America, its farmers and ranchers, and its economic colonization are the result of 8 decades of bipartisan government policy that, through a combination of intent or effect, bargained away rural America’s prosperity in exchange for cheap food, Cold War negotiating leverage, global “free trade,” cheap dollars, and the enrichment of a whole host of people and corporations who would never darken the doors of a farmer’s house. Some of the things that you named are a potential net good to rural America. Much of it will have a negligible effect. Declaring a “golden era” after 200 days undersells the magnitude of the work to be done and it undermines the sincerity of your support for rural America, which I do believe is genuine. This is not a six month job. This is not even a four year job. 80 years of failures take time to repair and we’re only at the beginning. The new 50% tariff on Brazilian imports is more meaningful than practically anything you shared in your post. As someone out in the trenches of the rural work, I ask you: please listen to rural people and work on things that will fix the 80 year failure, whether or not the solutions come quickly or make for a snappy social media post. There’s a whole lot of work left to do. We need your help.