For the most part, Donald Trump can do nothing right in the eyes of his haters and next to nothing wrong in the eyes of his followers. He has singularly divided the country into two camps: Trump or anti-Trump, regardless of the issue.
As someone who frequently agrees with the president, however, I am stymied by his denouncement of mail-in voting. Trump took to Twitter earlier this week on the issue, posting “NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” and if Trump needed to trump that, he added, “This will be a Rigged Election.” He previously said mail-in voting would keep a Republican from being “elected in this country again.”
Say what? No matter how red your state of mind, Trump’s stance on this issue seems wobbly at best, unAmerican at worst.
Where to begin? Do we start with the hypocrisy that Trump and several of his inner-circle bobbleheads who think the opposite of Yes is Yep, including his daughter and the White House press secretary, have voted by mail for years?
Do we acknowledge that Trump was just as doubtful about in-person polling places in Pennsylvania in 2016 when he said the only way he could lose the Keystone State was “if cheating goes on?”