Looking for competent leadership?

In American Greatness, Salena Zito takes a look at a possible Howard Schultz independent candidacy in 2020.

In short, a Schultz run or any other independent run will expose how the partisan game is played and how much voters’ concerns are ignored in favor of donors’ and activists’.

Neither party wants to reveal that it wants to avoid the middle to win the primary, and you can’t win a primary without throwing red meat to the activists and the donors.

Every overreaction in American politics tends to be about one of the two parties’ vulnerabilities. An independent candidate like Schultz hits both establishment parties’ weaknesses; they care more about their donors and their activists than the majority of the people in this country, who is just looking for competent leadership.

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