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Some people want a leaner government, but they also want that achieved with care and thoughtfulness by domain experts. Chesterton's fence comes to mind.

This seems unlikely. If even 5% of Trump voters don’t want to see this, that very likely means less than half of voters wanted this. That’s a very small margin to work with. From here in Canada it doesn’t look like this is a popular action to take.

I could be wrong and maybe tons of democrat voters want to see this… But what I’m seeing online indicates otherwise.

No candidate received more than 50% of the votes cast in the last US presidential election.

Okay, what I meant is more like "if only 5% of the largest body of voters don't want what the administration they voted for is doing, it's very possible that more than 50% of all voters combined (regardless of who they voted for) don't want what's happening"

The US government was funding Afghan farmers to grow 'crops'. I'm fairly sure that wasn't cotton.

in Seeds Of Terror by Gretchen Peters points out those subsidies helped farmers NOT farm opium for the Taliban. If you think of it from an Afghani farmer's perspective: why would you farm any other crop that pays significantly less per yield when you have a family to feed?

Congress doesn't allow for funding of crops in other counties that compete on the international market.

Seems like they do

It was strawberries.

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