The USPS is incredibly popular and it would be the easiest thing in the world to run an aggressive campaign defending its existence and making the case for public services. But the Dems won’t do it because, fundamentally, they don’t really believe in that.
The guiding liberal ethos says that public services are a necessary evil and that, ideally, private businesses would get their act together and take over virtually everything. The market is more efficient, etc...
It’s the same reason they wouldn’t just sell universal healthcare. Remember, the healthcare marketplace was a SELLING POINT. As if people would say, “Oh thank goodness it’s a marketplace, not some crummy free service!”
I'm not saying they WANT the USPS die but they don't want it to live, either. Not enough to fight for it or to readjust their worldview to allow for the idea that public services can exist, and be not turn a profit, and that's for the best. That opens a whole can of worms.
