There are a thousand ways the 2020 election could have turned into a generation-defining constitutional disaster. The president’s fallacious conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud aside, now is a great time to reflect on everything that went right with this year’s COVID-ravaged vote. The biggest winner? The United States Postal Service.
Despite a nearly yearlong effort by Trump and White House officials like Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to undermine confidence in the postal service — first by falsely claiming mail-in voting is dangerously insecure and then by directly attacking the Post Office’s ability to perform its mission — a record 65 million Americans cast ballots through the mail in 2020. Voters rejected sustained right-wing attacks on the integrity of mail-in voting to cast their ballots in record numbers.
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