FARMAGEDDON! Guess who started it?

Comparison:

‘We're going through a second farm crisis right now, Farmageddon,‘ said Turek, the Democratic state lawmaker running against Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) for an open Senate seat.

Politico writer Jonathan Martin snags a potent portmantaeu from Josh Turek that reverberates through the midwest and beyond. Some portmantaeu creations carry metaphoric themes or focal points. The combination of weather and political disruption in the midwest do much to carry metaphor-like insight and awareness of impending doom. What's the latest portmantaeu have you created and used lately? Did it carry metaphor-like dynamics?

Context:

The triple-whammy of tariffs, expensive diesel and fertilizer and now imported beef has created a crisis for agriculture-state Republicans.

Over some brisket at Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que earlier this month, the pastor of the country’s biggest Methodist congregation said Kansans are at a breaking point.

‘Now some of those people are still not willing to say, “Hey, we don't like Trump,’ but they do expect their senator is going to speak up for them,“ said Adam Hamilton, the pastor-turned-Democratic nominee against Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.). ‘What I'm hearing when I go across the state is people saying — and these are Republicans, not Democrats — we can't have six more years of this, or even two more years of this.‘

Hamilton said the only question is: ‘How many farms are going to go bankrupt?‘

Two hundred miles north up I-35, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Josh Turek echoed Hamilton.

‘We're going through a second farm crisis right now, Farmageddon,‘ said Turek, the Democratic state lawmaker running against Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) for an open Senate seat.

Citation:

Martin, Jonathan. “The Republican Party’s Midterm Nightmare Is Taking Shape." Politico, 30 Aug. 2026. Web.

(Graphic image design by Lee Aigue base image courtesy of Google Flow, Aug. 2026.)