On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” host Michael Knowles highlights a growing divide in the Democrat Party between liberals and the growing far-left base as revealed in former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s recent comments on the Green New Deal and environmentalism. Schultz, Knowles argues, is not interested in running a “futile campaign,” but actually interested in winning — and the only chance he has is to split what remains of the reasonable Democrats away from the radical ones controlling the party. Transcript and video below.
President Trump is not the only person who’s upset with Democrats these days for obstruction or radicalism. Democrat Howard Schultz is also upset with the Democrats, and here is why. In a CNN Town Hall he’s asked this question: “As a lifelong Houstonian, I’ve seen the damages that hurricanes have caused to my city and I watched as Harvey continued, in a devastating way, that damage. So in the face of a warming climate that leads to more powerful storms, how much of a priority would climate change be to your administration and what are some plans you have to tackle that issue?”
Before we get to his answer, I would like to point this out. This is the trick that the left does all the time, he says “as a native Houstonian I have seen the damage that global warming has done to my community, I’ve seen what these storms that are caused by global warming, I’ve seen what they do. I’ve seen global warming up close because of specific weather events, global warming.” Is weather the climate or is weather not the climate? Because when Amy Klobuchar gets covered in snow and we mock her for saying global warming is happening, they say “weather is not climate.” And then when this kid gets up there and says there was a big storm that affected Houston therefore that is global warming, all of the left applauds and say, “Yes, that is. That specific weather event is the climate, but only that one because it confirms our biases, not the other specific weather events — that’s not climate. What, you’d have to be an idiot to think that those specific weather events are climate.”
So anyway, Howard Schultz goes on to answer this question:
Schultz: When I read the Green New Deal, and I try and understand what they’re suggesting, I don’t understand how you’re going to give a job for everybody, how you’re going to give free college to everybody, how you’re going to create clean energy throughout the country in every building of the land, and then tally this thing up with 32 trillion dollars on Medicare for all. That’s about 40 trillion dollars, plus we are sitting — ladies and gentlemen — with 22 trillion dollars of debt on the balance sheet of America. So once again, not that I’m a business person or I’m an economist, and maybe an economist would disagree with me, but I think it’s immoral to suggest that we can tally up 20, 30, 40, 50 trillion dollars of debt to solve a problem that could be solved in a different way.
Now, of course, he’s right about this, the question is: Is this gonna help him in his strategy to run as an independent Democrat for president, or is this gonna hurt him? I think it helps him. His whole strategy is he has to split the Democrats, he’s got to split the reasonable Democrats away from the insane, radical intersectional leftists, and then he’s got to siphon some votes off of Donald Trump, and then he becomes president.
Now is this a likely strategy, is he likely to become president? No, but anything could happen. Look, never say never when it comes to Donald Trump as they say, so I suppose there’s a world in which it does happen. Plus events change everything, so if Donald Trump goes spiraling down for some reason, he actually has a pretty good chance of doing it. I don’t think that Howard Schultz is running an intentionally futile campaign, I don’t think he’s running just to show the strength of possible third parties, I don’t think that at all. I think Howard Schultz is running to win, he knows that the odds are stacked against him, but he’s gonna put himself in a place where if something goes wrong he could theoretically become president. There is an appetite out there for less crazy Democrats, they’re genuinely is.