Howard Schultz barely seems to want the White House. He comes to the national stage with plenty of pithy aphorisms and apt diagnoses of the problems corroding American politics, but his proposed solutions, when they exist, seem more at the level of a high school debate team rather than a self-made billionaire.

But that may be the very point to the will-he, won’t-he drama Schultz has added into the 2020 fracas.