Rep. Mark Alford faced a voter at a town hall event earlier this week who wasn’t afraid to say, quite harshly, that the representative doesn’t have his head in the right place — and experts have thoughts on why it’s been resonating in such a powerful way.
The Missouri Republican held the event in Bolivar, Missouri, on Monday as part of a four-day town hall tour. One resident, identified as Fred Higginbotham, took the opportunity in a now-viral moment to express his frustrations with President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill and to slam the representative for kowtowing to Trump — and he didn’t hold back.
“I am pissed, and I’m pissed at you, because I have emailed you because it’s easier for me than to try to talk on the phone without profanity,” he said, before he urged the representative to study the U.S. Constitution. He also said Trump needs to get “out of office” and called the president “a dictator” who “knows nothing about what he talks about.”
The Missouri resident then said he was about to lose his farm, before he questioned: “How much money of our tax money goes to farmers?”
“You want to straighten out the budget? Start taxing corporations and the wealthy, like we’ve been telling you,” he later continued. “Do you think we’re idiots? Do you think we don’t pay taxes? Do you think that we don’t have to make budgets?”
