 You know, Trump's comments in the Postal Service, I don't know if this is unprecedented, I'm not a historian, but I think it's the most open I've ever heard voter suppression in America discussed historically, except maybe the Reconstruction Period where white supremacists is the 1870s now, you know, maybe the 1870s. So this is really a throwback to the most open, you know, history of voter suppression, especially the black community, which has a long history. I mean, in the wake of the Civil War, the emergence of black voters was a pivot question for a lot of political issues, and it really was the key issue for moving the country in a more progressive direction after the Civil War, as opposed to towards the monopoly capitalism that it became. So the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South, which was done by ballot stuffing and murder, you know, people should look up the Wilmington riots of 1898, where there was just a whole city government just overthrown by a white supremacist mob. So there's a long history of this. In recent years, it's become a much bigger issue. Republicans, you know, really since the Civil Rights Movement, but significantly for some time have, you know, really tried to use as a major part of their politics, the politics of racial grievance. The idea that for white working class and middle class people to try to say, well, all of the problems of the neoliberal era are really because there's a limited pie, and blacks have gotten more of the pie as opposed to they used to, and you're an immigrant now and you are failing because of that. And so in the past, really, I would say since about 1998, Republicans have developed an extremely sophisticated system of voter suppression that has been primarily based around purging people from the voting rolls, creating a range of different, you know, maneuvers that basically mean that millions and millions of people have been subject to having their names removed. A lot of times they don't know that this has really happened or don't fully understand it until they show up to vote. Then you have to fill out something called a provisional ballot. Provisional ballots often aren't even fully counted. So you know, there's a very large number of votes. Reg Pallas is a journalist who's done much work on this since the year 2000, you know, of potentially millions and millions of people who've been denied the right to vote. And so Trump's saying that he wants to prevent the postal service from getting additional funds that will allow it to deal with many things, including the onslaught of mail-in ballots because of COVID-19. Most elections will probably be very heavily via mail, but we're not set up for that in this country. So the postal service needs more infrastructure as do the states. And Trump openly saying he wants to do this defunding of the postal service to prevent mail to prevent people from voting. I mean, it really is that simple. He's claiming that the votes are off fraudulent, but obviously that's that's false. Larry Kudlow, who is the top economist of the White House, also said same day as Trump says, I'm going to stop the mail-in ballots. He says that voting rights is part of a liberal wish list of Democrats that Republicans have no interest in. So I mean, it really is a blatant direct assault because they have to limit the number of black people, but also Asians and Latino people who vote because they're trying to do this explicitly racist appeal. And obviously if those people, you know, will come out and vote against the feeling that there's some, you know, potential far right white supremacist institution, they have to be able to limit that in order to get what they want. So here we're seeing, you know, yet again the unfolding of this terrible situation. But I mean, it's really miraculous. I mean, people who don't follow the United States closely, I think for who, you know, see what's on Voice of America or CNN or whatever, it would be very surprised to know literally millions and millions of people have been disenfranchised. And many of the top architects of this are the biggest supporters of Trump in the country and many of them are deeply ensconced in his campaign already.