Accuse Democrats of Socialism, Ignore Trump Farm Subsidies

Back in 2014, I spent a day in Iowa following Joni Ernst around toward the end of her successful campaign for the Senate. We had one memorable encounter at a small manufacturing plant in Newton that kicked up a little fuss, and that embedded in me a curiosity as to what Ernst might do after she was elected. Frankly, it was a little disappointing. She largely kept her head down, did the workhorse stuff of a rookie senator, and she worked through a very rough patch in her personal life. Where was the woman whose trolley had so thoroughly left the track that day in Newton, I wondered. There is no entertainment value here. She didn't even mention castrating hogs any more, and that was her most famous stage routine back before she got elected.

I was just coming to grips with my disappointment when she announced her candidacy for re-election the other day and, boy howdy, that trolley went freaking airborne. From the estimable Iowa Starting Line, which was in the house:

Ernst is considered one of the Senate's marginally vulnerable Republican incumbents this time around, so it was all hands on deck for the bikers-and-beef hootenanny at which she announced she was running again. Mike Pence showed up, as did Nikki Haley. In this, we got a preview of what the general Republican line of attack will be for the next year-and-a-half for all elective offices, large and small: Socialism, socialism, socialism.

Nobody will define it, of course. For example, back in May, for the second time, the president* backed up the Brink's truck and piled $16 billion into the hands of American farmers who are getting murdered by his trade war with China. Ernst was not opposed to this obvious outbreak of rank socialism. Oh, no, not a bit. From the Des Moines Register:

And they would, if the president* wasn't engaged in his stupid trade war.

Nice to have you back again, Senator. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

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