'Stupidity is policy': Ex-GOP lawmaker piles on Trump's 'fantasy as fact' economic woes

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," a former Republican member of the House of Representatives jumped on Donald Trump's tariffs and the devastating effect it is having on American consumers, manufacturers and farmers.

Speaking with the hosts, ex-Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) cited soybean farmers losing their livelihoods to make his case.

"The soybean market is destroyed, right?" he began. "What do we do now? Where's the money going to be for any type of subsidies for farmers? Now, how are you going to fund it? I mean, if you're defunding the IRS, how are you going to get the monies to actually come in to actually pay for all the subsidies for farmers right now?"

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"There's a cascading effect of stupid and stupidity is terminal, right?" he continued. "And that's that's the issue that we have right now, is you have a terminal administration that thinks that stupidity is policy, right. and fantasy is fact. And when you have people that are like that making policy choices, we're in really big trouble."

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