Yeah, there's been (until this year) zero difference between the parties on economic/trade policy since 1992 when the Clinton campaign had "It's the economy, stupid" as its slogan to remind them the one thing that matters most in elections. Unfortunately, they, like the Bush Republicans, meant the stock market and global trade deals for their friends when they said "economy."

So if you were a typically conservative-ish farmer, you could vote for the party that was going to screw you economically and trash your culture, or the party that would screw you economically and maybe pretend to stand up for your culture sometimes. Not a happy choice, but if you were going to bother to vote, an easy one.