Democrats might benefit from reacquainting themselves with the private economy and wealth creation, which is damaged by punitive taxation. Mr. Schultz could point this out in debates and note how the success of Starbucks allowed him to provide thousands of Americans with jobs, good health care, and the $30 million to help veterans navigate the workforce that Mr. Schultz has written about in these pages.
Mr. Schultz has also dared to question the wisdom and affordability of Medicare for All, which would cost well north of $30 trillion over 10 years. Democrats don’t want to hear this, but voters might. Americans may balk when they learn that Medicare for All would eliminate all private insurance, which Mr. Schultz rightly says is “not American.”
Democrats should want to have this kind of debate in their primaries lest they anoint a nominee whose ideas turn out to be too radical to defeat even Mr. Trump, or to govern successfully if they beat him. But Democratic elites don’t seem to want to hear anything that would interfere with socialism by acclamation.
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