Donald Trump's attacks on the US Post Office have blown up in his face in spectacular fashion:report

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August 30, 2020

By Tom Boggioni

Donald Trump’s attempts to curtail mail-in voting by having his Postmaster General interfere with U.S. Post Office operations is having the unintended effect of filling the coffers of Democratic candidates who will be on the ballot in November.

According to a report from the Daily Beast, at least one hundred Democrats currently running for office have used the uproar over postal interruptions in their emails to supporters designed to rake in contributions — and it is working.

“It’s huge—every single client has been trying to capitalize on it,” explained one Democratic strategist before adding, “It’s rare you get an issue where every candidate, whether they’re a Blue Dog or very liberal, is so aligned on this.”

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According to Democratic strategist Jared Leopold, “I’ve sat in dozens of focus groups of swing voters, and they care about core competency of government. This is a great proof point of something that is apolitical that Trump has politicized and screwed up… It’s a reason why Democrats would go on offense about it.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/donald-trumps-s-on-the-us-post-office-have-blown-up-in-his-face-in-spectacular-fashion-report/

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-turn-table-on-post-office-sabotage

[lunatica]

1. The USPS is an American Institution.

The original Wells Fargo was a huge boost to the delivery of mail. They delivered mail much faster and made their reputation because of it.

Mail is practically sacrosanct to us. Even the advent of the internet hasn’t destroyed it. And Trump certainly won’t destroy it, but it may destroy him.

[Illumination]

14. Trump destruction...like the sound of that!...

[lunatica]

27. Yup. Hung by his own petard.

And he’s full of eminently quotable last words. Like, “Can’t they just inject themselves with Clorox?”

[intrepidity]

2. Hell, any candidate that runs on a platform of "Core Competency of Government"

ought to win in a landslide in our current environment.

[SCantiGOP]

3. It's about basic competence

The simplified version of how Mussolini came to power in Italy was "He made the trains run on time."
The country was so dysfunctional and with an unworkable political stalemate that people were just looking for competence, and were willing to put up with Il Duce if he could make the everyday parts of society function.

This is an argument I have been using (and I don't get a lot of pushback from even the most delusional Trump fans) - How can Trump screw up the Post Office? Why doesn't he make things like FEMA work (i.e., Puerto Rico and CA fires) and the FDA and CDC, etc etc

[jaxexpat]

20. Yeah, imagine "competence" as requisite for political office for a change.

Never would have dreamed it possible back in the 24-7 "her e-mails"/"Bengazi" days. Camels lay broken-backed all across our great nation literally COVERED in straws.

But it's Sunday afternoon and I'm sure most have imbibed their quantity of courage and the mail's still broken.

[SCantiGOP]

23. I think Biden is already laying that out

Competence, decency and honesty.
Let’s lock that in before we start arguing policy.

[jaxexpat]

24. This is the best time ever for Democrats to NEVER argue policy with each other.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. The Idiot-In-Chief didn't realize that when "mail" stops, commerce stops.

It's that easy.

[Illumination]

15. It's called common sense. Which he & the other Republican criminals don't have!

[SergeStorms]

21. And it doesn't just stop for Democrats...

his cult is getting hurt by it as well, and if there's one thing that might sway a few of them into the blue side of the ledger, it's getting their KKK newsletter late every week.

[Philostopher]

5. It was a spectacularly tone-deaf stunt

And it was a spectacularly bad time to pull it. If they'd waited until September to start doing this stuff, there wouldn't have been time to call it out, publicize it and plant a flag - it's a gift to anybody willing to take advantage of it, calling them out for doing that to the USPS. That's what shocks me the most about it.

Also, the dipshits didn't think everybody uses the Post Office, not just Democratic voters in general elections. I know they've wanted to kill the Post Office since Reagan, but how freakin' bad a strategist do you have to be, to choose this summer, when people are relying on the Postal Service more than ever, to try to screw it up?

[Locrian]

13. yes

the dems (and us) need to HAMMER them with this
it hits the rural population hard (where a lot of the gop base is)

About the only other thing he could have done to piss them off more would have been to attack the public roads

As an aside - its painful to watch the stupid gop rural idiots crying about gov when they SOOOOO benefit from the public projects like the post office, roads, etc Privatize that and none of them would be able to afford to live like they do.

[Phoenix61]

6. I think it's especially important to older voters

They are more likely to need it for medicine and to have fond memories of getting birthday cards, love letters etc in the mail. As far as demographics go, this is much more likely to piss of a Trump supporter than a Biden supporter.

[Cetacea]

9. And businesses.

The USPS enjoys a 90 percent approval rating.

[empedocles]

7. trump flagrancy has some effective limits - good to realize

[Cha]

8. It bloody well should have.. my god! Everybody loves the USPS..

even maggots.

trump also "politicized" the Sports Teams & guess what.. Backfire!

GO DEMS!!

[Chainfire]

10. They wan to take your Post Office

Your health care, your jobs, your Social Security. What is not to love about them.

[Illumination]

16. They want us to be sick with C-19 living out of a cardboard box!

[smirkymonkey]

11. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

12. 'Destroy the government so we can steal it' only works in CEO focus groups

and even then only until it impacts CEO business.

Donnie's base is billionaire wannabe's with his golf club memberships. I bet he hasn't been in a supermarket in his adult life.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. it's also a life or death issue for a lot of people!

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/29/the-u-s-postal-service-is-a-medical-catastrophe/

[Auggie]

18. I'll save my snark for after the election

If/when Dems take the White House and Senate then we’ll know Trump’s stunt did indeed blow up in his face.

People still need to vote. And those votes need to be counted.

[mainer]

19. If you like what he did to the USPS, you'll love what he does to social security

Tearing down the country, service by service.

[Vogon_Glory]

22. Democrats should beat the drum with this issue

I don’t think enough politicians and consultants realize just how important the Postal Service is not only to veterans, the homebound, and the elderly but to the millions of Americans who operate small home businesses.

Donnie is a fool for alienating them. Many of these small businessmen would be forced to shut down their businesses and driven into destitution if the Postal Service was destroyed. These small businessmen are not usually Democratic voters, but Donnie’s plan to gut the Postal Service threatens to ruin their livelihoods.

Privatizing the Postal Service may sound ducky for multi-billionaires and libertarian ideologies but it spells ruin for small businesses across the US.

[Demovictory9]

25. K&r

[Blue Owl]

26. In yo FACE, fucko!

Suck it Donny!