The Biden-Harris campaign should make a major deal about Donald Trump’s sabotaging of the Postal Service. But really this is a bipartisan issue. Republican mail-in votes will be held up and may not be counted, just as with Democratic ballots. There will be other important mail that will remain undelivered or delayed.
This is particularly heinous as it is being done during the pandemic. People must make potentially life-threatening decisions regarding whether to risk COVID-19 exposure and vote in person or possibly forgo their fundamental right to vote. Trump is placing the American electorate between a rock and a hard place.
Indeed, there is one way in which this issue is very much partisan: It can serve to unite the country against Trump and his cronies. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and antidemocratic and undermines our most profound ideals. This is clearly the move of an autocrat and portends a major threat to every American—a threat that can only escalate if Trump is reelected.
Dr. Austin Wertheimer
Brookline
The writer is affiliated with Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Note from KBJ: How many of you would like to be treated by Austin Wertheimer? He's batshit crazy!
