re: The Amish vote: should djt campaign spend money to get these folks to the polls?

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Gotta say the confederate flag on the Amish wagon is disappointing. Those people don’t seem like the cuck type and considering they’re in a state that lost many thousands of young men fighting the confederacy this is Steve King of Iowa flying the confederate flag in his office level cuckoldry.

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Also weird to see a sticker for a gas station chain (Sunoco) on the back of a horse drawn buggy

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Nothing in the pic shows what state they are in. There are Amish people all over the nation

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It's unusual because the Amish are pacifists by religion. They suffered from the draft and their farms being destroyed from both the North and the South.

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As religious outsiders who traced their origins to the radical fringe of the Protestant Reformation, many Mennonites and Amish had settled in America to avoid compulsory military service in Europe.

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More significant than challenging their civic loyalty and threatening their commitment to the principles of pacifism, the Civil War forced them to engage the political and cultural mainstream and adapt to the contingencies of war in order to protect their distinctive and countercultural religious beliefs.

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In Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, conscripted pacifists could secure an exemption from military service by paying a $500 commutation fee or furnishing a substitute. Although a few Mennonites fought for the Confederacy, many more attempted to flee north and avoid supporting the rebellion. During the autumn of 1864, the Union's hard war policy resulted in the destruction of several Mennonite farms, and these southern conscientious objectors suffered at the hands of Rebels who confiscated their crops and livestock and Federals who destroyed what remained.

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Pennsylvania Mennonites, in contrast, benefited from political ties to Radical Republican senator Thaddeus Stevens, who helped his constituents secure military exemptions from the state militia without paying a commutation fee. Most Pennsylvania pacifists realized that political participation was essential to the preservation of their religious privileges.

For several reasons, midwestern Mennonites and Amish lacked the political connections of their Pennsylvania brethren. Many pacifists drafted in Ohio and Indiana paid a $200 commutation fee or hired substitutes to avoid service.

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I think TV ads for the Amish would be bigly for Trump

Also Liked the confederate flags on the buggy
High end stuff! MAGA

Bus em in.. err... horse and buggy em in!

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There are Menonites in TN that drive buggies.

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Yeah, I had a client in a heated custody battle who had previously been in a a Mennonite community in Smith County, TN. She had escaped that upbringing and family, and lord was that a lot to unpack and litigate. Many of those groups are freaking looney toons, and it was quite sad the depths her family and ex-husband's family had gone to to essentially completely disown her and threw her out on the streets. And the stories I heard as to how she was treated before she left were horrifying. She ended up being, more or less, homeless for several years, with no education, no friends, no family, no money, nothing. Took her 5-6 years to get back on her feet. Fortunately, she met a great guy, remarried, and I was able to reunite her with her son. But holy shite at the unconstitutional requests her ex-husband made and the religious intimidation that persisted throughout our case.

There is an amish superpac. The Amish have never really voted in large numbers until 2016 and they will again in 2020

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2019/08/26/Amish-Trump-Lancaster-County-2020-Election-Pennsylvania-Republican/stories/201906110071

There are many cultures but the type of Amish I used to see when I went shopping and to Amish Country-Only wore a beard if they were married. No mustache allowed but a beard. The longer the beard the wiser.

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Bus em in.. err... horse and buggy em in!

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I wonder if they have any rules against riding in some of those UFOs we've been discovering.