President Trump recently suggested farmers will end up “better off” after confronting China on trade but acknowledged it will “take a little while to get there.” He understands that enlisting farmers as front-line troops in a protracted trade war won’t end well. I believe, and I think the president believes, that free and fair trade is the right policy.

What’s surprising is how many Democrats in rural and Midwest states seem to not only want a trade war but want the Chinese to win. They are so obsessed with Trump failing they’re willing to sacrifice American agriculture on the altar of the #Resistance.