Opinion: Trump ploughs familiar furrow

As shocking as it may seem, Donald Trump mimicked Barack Obama in
proposing to gut the federal crop insurance programme in his budget
this week.
And he looks just as likely to fail as his Democratic
predecessor did in 2013 and again in 2015, and as previous White
House occupants have done going back to the late 1980s.
Why? For one thing the make-up of Congress, particularly the
Senate, tends to stack the deck in favour of farmers.
While farm...