of assault on our democracy and election process started last december in the lead up to the election. we are in the middle of the pandemic, real concern about physically going to pulling stations to vote. there is a flurry of people trying to vote by mail. many states trying to make voting by mail as accessible as possible. that prospect of making voting easier did not sit well donald trump's administration who railed against mail voting every chance they got. that attack on democracy appeared to manifest itself in the dismantling of the way that people were voting by mail, the post office, destroying the way they were sent their ballot. the great male slowdown of 2020 was executed by trump's postmaster general louis dejoy. he is a wealthy businessman and prolific republican donor who contributed over one and a half million dollars to trump's campaigns in 2016 and 2020. before he was named postmaster general, he was named one of the three national deputy finance chairman for the