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Howard Schultz’s bigger problems

Protesters rally outside a Schultz book-tour stop in Seattle on Jan. 31

BY EVEN JUST TESTING THE WATERS FOR AN INDEPENDENT presidential run in 2020, billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has done us a favor. He has revealed the political bigotry inherent in the torrent of “spoiler” charges immediately leveled at him by Democratic Party partisans and scores of pundits—including supposed champions of the free-speech rights of very unpopular opinions—who claim he will swing the 2020 election to President

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