Tonight is the end of Trump's four-day rally on National television, when he is expected to try to make some big gesture of toward magnanimity the US. It won't involve mail boxes or sorting machines, but I'm willing to bet it WILL be another ethical violation of the Hatch Act. There have been so many offenses that pundits have lost count. What is happening in the post office (where his people are "planted goons," not appointees) is strictly designed to help him win. It is an impeachable offense all by itself.

Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here is amazingly prescient for today's events. The self-appointed militia, the gun-toting rights protectors, Trumps free irrational army, they are Windrip's "Minute Men" in the novel. I'm up to chapter 15, right after his inauguration when non-compliant congressmen and senators were arrested "for their own protection."

The post office is the tip of the iceberg, and Steven Miller is Lee Sarason.

(An interesting note: I couldn't find this book at the US Project Gutenberg location, but a search brought me to a copy in the Australian site.)