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Why is Trump so desperate to raise oil prices, even though America is a net oil importer? 1/ nytimes.com/2020/04/12/bus…
Why is he refusing to help the Post Office, which is in financial crisis? 2/
One answer is that in 2016 oil&gas gave 88% of its contributions to Republicans opensecrets.org/industries/tot… while postal unions gave only 12 percent opensecrets.org/industries/tot… 3/
And postal workers are overwhelmingly unionized about.usps.com/strategic-plan… while mining, including oil&gas, is basically un-unionized 4/ bls.gov/news.release/u…
Also, the world's two top oil exporters are Saudi Arabia and Russia, so Trump is helping his favorite autocrats; meanwhile, he believes that the post office is subsidizing Jeff Bezos, whose newspaper reports uncomfortable truths 5/
I do wonder, however, if he's thought this through politically. The post office is overwhelmingly popular; if it collapses on his watch, it would hurt him 6/ thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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