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1. Look, @SteveSchmidtSES, I get it. You want your party back from Trumpism - you want space for the ideologies on which you've staked your careers. Same for other Never Trumpers like @MaxBoot, @DavidJollyFL or @davidfrum. Running @HowardSchultz as an IND in 2020 isn't the way.
2. The #GOP didn't get here overnight. The Southern Strategy, the alliance with Evangelicals, the anti-intellectualism, the systemic voter suppression - this has been a set trajectory for decades. One you were all a part of, even though you may not like where you landed.
3. And, yes, it may be that your party is forever ruined and a new one must rise, but there is no quick fix. Running Howard as an independent allows you to bypass the primary process. Claiming he is an "independent-centrist" is disingenuous. Independent of what?
4. The Democrats are a "big-tent" party. Howard's claim that he doesn't support what the Democrats stand for is, frankly, a straw-man statement. When pushed on this he repeatedly says, "free healthcare, free education and free jobs".
5. Nobody knows what he's talking about with "free jobs". Affordable and accessible healthcare is a Dem position, but what that looks like varies within the party. Same with education. Did you sleep through the 2016 cycle?
6. The formerly Republican politicos supporting Schultz know all these things. They also know the risk it poses to potentially split the vote and end up with Trump again. Are you not the same pundits who have aligned yourselves against DT for the past 2 years?
7. If you want to reform your party, then run him as a Republican. Better yet, start a reform party and run candidates for lower offices and build something. At least be honest about it. This wolf in sheep's clothing routine is a bad look and an untenable risk to our country.
