The Trumpists want to get rid of the Post Office now. Anyone want to bet they are buying shares of FedEx and UPS? For decades - really started with a campaign to draft Henry Ford in the 1920s - a certain segment of Americans have barracked for having a businessman as president. That the government should be run "like a business."
While the pandemic proves just how wrong that thinking is, Republicans will double down on it, because that's all they know. A government's job - at least since the 1930s - is to provide a foundation that supports the country as a whole. Hospitals can't justify having too many rooms or ventilators, so the government's job is to back up the system with redundancies. Trump was musing about how it didn't make any sense that hospitals that only have a half dozen ventilators suddenly needed hundreds.
That's because Trump - and really almost the entirety of the modern GOP - doesn't understand why we have a government. Trump IS running the US government like a business, and like one of his businesses, he will just bankrupt it, fire everyone and walk away.
The Post Office is a public good. It exists for everyone, but especially the poorer segments of society. The Republicans have been trying to kill it with unreasonable pension rules for decades. Democrats - like Elizabeth Warren - want to revitalize it by turning it into a financial institution that could replace predatory pay-day loan sharks.
There are a million differences between the Republicans and Democrats for all those coddled fucking anti-Biden idiots. You want another one? There it is.
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