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Why is DeJoy, a notorious Trump syncophant, permitted to be head of the USPS? Can he not be replaced? He is a threat to our democracy.
Biden has had the capacity to replace him for at least a year now.
Between Garland and DeJoy, I hope we are paying attention to what neo-liberals think progress looks like. We need to be aggressively supporting young progressives in the Democratic party as much as possible.
Will that pull in enough swing voters though? I'd love Liz or Bernie to be running the show, but I don't trust America's shitty electorate to sufficiently turn out for someone like that.
From my perspective, Biden ran as a somewhat conservative Democrat and then proceeded to pass some fairly progressive stuff despite the current political environment.
IMO we're doing about as well as we can do considering the broad range of political ideologies that all have to fit under the "not a conservative" umbrella before there are enough voters to outnumber conservatives + the electoral collage.
Not trying to say this isn't true, but do you have a source for this info?
I know they needed to appoint new board members because that's who votes for DeJoy's position. They were able to replace a couple conservatives but one of the board members we thought was a progressive started blocking attempts to remove DeJoy.
At least that's how I remember it. That was several months ago if not longer though. Would love for someone to correct whatever I got wrong and update us with anything that may have happened since then.
The last person he nominated was a Republican back in May 2022. He was not required to nominate a Republican. The board can only have a maximum of five governors from the same party. Currently there are three Democrats, three Republicans, and one independent and also two vacant spots. So there could easily be two more Democrats. If the last person he nominated was a Democrat, that would mean four Democrats, two Republicans, and one independent which means it would not matter if that independent person always sided with Republicans.
So he essentially had the power to get DeJoy removed for nearly the last two years.
The source for the info is Wikipedia which lists the when the terms began for each governor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service