Week 196 - Post Office Under Attack

This week, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe  Biden chose his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, the first Black and  Asian American vice presidential candidate. An oddly unprepared Trump  campaign and Republican Party reacted with a deluge of sexist and racist  attacks, including shameful accusations of “birtherism.” Trump also  threw his support behind a House candidate who espouses the QAnon  conspiracy theory and is openly racist, raising serious concerns again  about the future of the Republican Party.

This week, as polls continued to show Trump down  to Biden nationally and in key battleground states, and despite the  pandemic continuing to impact much of the country, Trump openly said he  would block needed funding for the U.S. Post Office in an effort to  thwart mail-in voting for the November election. An incredible  admission, but yet Republicans seemed largely unwilling to call him out,  or band with Democrats to protect this basic tenet not only of American  democracy, but of everyday life. As democracies around the world looked  on in horror at a stolen election in Belarus, Americans were left to  wonder if we were next — with Trump’s efforts to compromise the upcoming  election.

This was another week full of stories of  corruption, kleptocracy, and division, as an exhausted America, that  couldn’t even agree on a scientifically proven measure like wearing  masks, faced an uncertain election in 80 days. Even as tens of millions  of Americans were still without a weekly unemployment payment, Senate  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate until  mid-September, and Trump headed back to the golf course.

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