Liberals are hoping former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wakes up and smells the coffee before he winds up re-electing Donald Trump.
Schultz is an unlikely target of the latest progressive two minutes hate.
Many Democrats fear that given a choice between Trump and their party's left wing, many suburban centrist voters-the types who helped make Nancy Pelosi speaker again-would find Schultz an attractive candidate.
"If Howard Schultz decides to run as an independent and stands in the way of defeating Trump, we will oppose him at every turn."
While Democrats have moved in a sharply different ideological direction than Schultz, they have become even more dependent on the votes of college-educated, affluent suburban voters who have been repulsed by Trump.
If many millions of these voters end up voting for Schultz instead of the Democratic presidential nominee, Democrats could be in their biggest trouble since Ralph Nader challenged Al Gore's left flank as the 2000 Green Party nominee.
The rage against Schultz in the absence of any real evidence of public support betrays a lack of confidence by Democrats that they can beat Trump-a weak incumbent who supposedly needed everything from a divided opposition to Russian interference in order to win the first time-except under ideal conditions.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-the-democrats-hate-howard-schultz/
Schultz is an unlikely target of the latest progressive two minutes hate.
Many Democrats fear that given a choice between Trump and their party's left wing, many suburban centrist voters-the types who helped make Nancy Pelosi speaker again-would find Schultz an attractive candidate.
"If Howard Schultz decides to run as an independent and stands in the way of defeating Trump, we will oppose him at every turn."
While Democrats have moved in a sharply different ideological direction than Schultz, they have become even more dependent on the votes of college-educated, affluent suburban voters who have been repulsed by Trump.
If many millions of these voters end up voting for Schultz instead of the Democratic presidential nominee, Democrats could be in their biggest trouble since Ralph Nader challenged Al Gore's left flank as the 2000 Green Party nominee.
The rage against Schultz in the absence of any real evidence of public support betrays a lack of confidence by Democrats that they can beat Trump-a weak incumbent who supposedly needed everything from a divided opposition to Russian interference in order to win the first time-except under ideal conditions.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-the-democrats-hate-howard-schultz/
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