Of all the people I meet on my short swing through America’s midwest, the gruff man who lived at a roadside ranch called Hog’s Haven near the Minnesota-Iowa border might have said it best.
Despite the big blue banner on his property declaring “TRUMP: Keeping America Great”, he didn’t want to talk about it. “I’m not into politics, I just put the sign up,” the man said when I knocked on his door. Donald Trump, he told me, was “better than what we had before”.
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