Thread by @paulkrugman

So, what we know: Trump probably won't succeed in stealing this election, but he tried and is continuing to try. His partisan postmaster deliberately disrupted mail-in voting; now he's trying to stop the count of legal votes 1/

And the only reason those votes haven't yet been counted is that R legislators blocked early counting of votes that were mostly cast well before Election Day 2/

So we're in the middle of an attempted coup against democracy, which may not succeed in stopping Biden but may have played some role in control of the Senate. 3/

The mail issues may or may not have mattered a lot — but the point is that they did try 4/

https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1324015509705236483