I met an Iowa corn farmer on a cruise in 2016. Interesting guy, very smart, and very much a trump supporter. There were zero democrats where he lived, and he really didn’t know any. This made for some interesting conversations, as I’m a flaming, tree-hugging, lefty libtard.

He pretty much bought the conservative tropes about liberals; we don’t have jobs, we want free stuff, we want open borders…pretty much any bad thing about libs. He was shocked to find out I’d started working when I was 12, paid my way through college, paid tor my kids to go to college etc.

He said “but you’re not like other liberals”, to which I replied, “how would you know? You don’t know any liberals”. I explained that what he was fed on right wing media is fantasy. I hardly made him change parties, but I made him think.

Once the trumps tariffs on soy beans hit, he quickly became aware that trump was a buffoon, and was all set to vote for Biden in 2020. Then Biden picked Harris as his running mate. He was an intelligent guy, but his innate racism trumped his intellect, and he decided to vote for trump.

Sadly, he was in a farming accident and died before the election, but my friendship with him was quite enlightening.