Howard Schultz unifies the parties — against him

Published February 1, 2019 5:00am ET



The endless fight between Republicans and Democrats seemed to pause last week.

The cause: The announcement on “60 Minutes” last Sunday by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz that he was seriously considering a run for president as a centrist independent in the 2020 election. Social media and partisan opinion writers lost their collective minds on that possibility with one of the parties seemingly deploying an activist to disrupt his first public outing by shouting:

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