The Last Roundup
Dec 10, 2019
5 minutes
By Tom Philpott
ON AN OCTOBER morning, two men and a woman wearing cowboy hats, bearing American flags, and sitting atop horses rode into a windowless conference room in the depths of a Ramada Inn on the edge of Omaha. When they reached the front of the room and faced the crowd of about 500 ranchers, a man stepped to a podium flanked by a dozen American flags sticking out of hay bales and gave an animated recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The riders filed out, and the crowd erupted in cheers. Two men sporting yellow “Cowboys for Trump” T-shirts leaped to their feet in applause.
This wasn’t a Trump rally. Rather, these ranchers, some from as far away as Alabama, had converged to demand that the White
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