President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly weighing a plan to make significant changes to the United States Postal Service. These proposed changes could include privatizing the agency, a course of action that, if pursued, would be a political and legal catastrophe.
Trump has a mandate and the broad goodwill of the people. Republicans have control of both chambers of Congress and a friendly conservative majority on the Supreme Court. The party has big plans to modernize the federal government, end wasteful spending, cut taxes, and end the scourge of illegal immigration.
All of these plans have broad popular support, and as the incoming administration prepares to enact these policies, the people have given the president-elect a windfall of public approval. If Trump and the party are successful in implementing these policies, it could set the party up for a broad popular mandate…
