Trump's attack on USPS is ratfucking the vote

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Trump's attack on USPS is ratfucking the vote
By Jeffrey C. Billman


(Detroit Metro Times) No less than Rutherford B. Hayes or George W. Bush, Donald Trump took office with his legitimacy hanging by a thread.

Having decisively lost the popular vote in 1876, Hayes claimed the White House following a series of dubious and disputed recounts that prompted a constitutional crisis barely a decade after the Civil War; a special congressional committee ultimately voted along party lines to install “Rutherfraud,” apparently as part of a deal to end Reconstruction.

Bush, another popular-vote loser, won the Electoral College in 2000 thanks to a 537-vote squeaker in Florida, where his brother Jeb was governor. This election — a debacle of hanging chads and butterfly ballots and a hackneyed, racist purge of the state’s voter rolls — nearly provoked another constitutional crisis; it ended when the Supreme Court squelched a statewide recount.

These were not shining moments for democracy.

Neither was Trump’s election in 2016. He won 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. His narrow Electoral College victory rested on hitting a royal flush in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. He was aided in key swing states by Republican efforts to suppress Black turnout. He had still more help from a politically obtuse FBI director who announced a last-minute re-investigation into Clinton’s email scandals. And, of course, Trump benefited from a sophisticated Russian intelligence operation designed to help him win, which he didn’t exactly discourage — and later tried to cover up. .............(more)

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1. What's gob smacking is his supporters are OK with him fuckin up the USPS to win an election ?! WTF?!