When it comes to the voters, both parties will tell you you can’t be too careful what you let them do. Was it just a few weeks ago that Howard Schultz, the millionaire founder of Starbucks and longtime donor to Democrats, said that he no longer felt he understood his old party and was contemplating an independent run? Perish the thought.

His party’s reaction was to ask him to take a short walk off a long pier. “Go to space, Howard Schultz,” wrote a Washington Postie.