Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents
Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer base—and his livelihood—vanish before his eyes.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forests” (1).
Sorry, I’m not sympathetic. You’ve damned us all because of your poorly uneducated choices.
You did vote to lose your job. You deserve to lose your job. More people are going to lose their job, like you.
And you voted for it.
Trump has shown who he is. Year after year, after year. We can’t blame it on folks not being educated anymore. They liked what he did when he did it to people they hated. That’s it…