Donald Trump has a fundamental problem as president. He’s mistaken the country for a kingdom. On a lesser but no less important scale, he’s mistaken the Postal Service as a money-making enterprise.
Fact: The United States was created as a democracy, not a kingdom.
Fact: The Postal Service was built into the U.S. Constitution 230 years ago as an essential government-provided service. Never was it conceived as a money-maker. Like the Royal Mail that had connected the British colonies before, the nation’s founders saw the U.S. Postal Office as a building block for our common good – and no less worthy of government financial support than the military.
Where did Trump get the idea that the Postal Service is undeserving of tax-dollar support? Not in history. Not in the facts. Not in a commitment to democracy.
This all gives rise to assessments that Trump sees the mail as an obstacle to his re-election. Fact: He’s afraid that mail-delivered votes lose the election for him. Why else starve a national asset that’s proven its worth since the beginning of the republic?
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