Having needlessly damaged the economic interests of key members of his base with his tariffs, Trump wants to mitigate the damage by using taxpayer money to bail them out. Senator Ben Sasse, a Never Trumper, has memorably described this idea as “golden crutches.”
This proves, yet again, that Trump and his allies only object to “welfare” when it goes to people other than hard-working white Christians. I’m going to make a wild guess here and speculate that the farmers won’t be required to take drug tests as a condition of receiving the subsidies.
If we have a financial crisis and a bank bailout is necessary, the same thing will happen. Trump will support the bailout, and while some of his CL supporters will howl, they will ultimately go along with it, because the mainstream of the GOP is now whatever Trump says it is.