For fibbity’s sake, I know y’all have 24 hours a day to fill with gas and the president hasn’t screwed a duck on live TV yet today, but, seriously? “Dems Fear Howard Schultz spoiler campaign?”
A couple of quick reality bombs for my yammering head friends:
Re: Democrats 2019: We’re not seeking a path to the “center” (i.e. GOP platform pre-2016). While maintaining healthy skepticism, we are excited about our diverse, determined and wicked smart presidential contenders, and looking forward to meeting more. We’re not fretful about our party getting “too radical” and don’t find calls for universal healthcare equally repugnant as concentration camps for kids.
Re: Howard Schultz: in order:
1. “Who?”
2. “Didn’t he draw Peanuts?”
3. “Oh, okay. Nah. Starbucks sucks.”
This is where this divinely-annointed Knight of the Third Way is starting off his quest. Nobody knows who he is, nobody cares and, if he can persuade them to stick around long enough to find out, their first natural reaction is as likely as not to be, “sucks.”
It being ten thousand Trump years from now, I have no idea how the 2020 elections will shake out. But I’ll go out on a limb and predict that our party’s greatest challenge isn’t going to be the guy who got famous for ruining coffee and not knowing the English words, “small,” “medium,” and “large.”