HE HAS NO CLUE THAT HE HELPED MAKE IT POSSIBLE, DOES HE? Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Is ‘Stunned’ by Donald Trump’s Win:
CEO Howard Schultz has made no secret of his disdain for Donald Trump.
In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Schultz said he was gobsmacked by the president-elect’s victory but said Americans had to respect the results.
“Like so many of our fellow Americans—both Democrats and Republicans—I am stunned,” Schultz wrote. “We cannot know what the precise impact will be on our country and the rest of the world. I am hopeful that we will overcome the vitriol and division of this unprecedented election season.”
I know, Howard. I too was shocked by Hillary’s divisive “deplorable” and “irredeemable” references and the equally guttural language of her closest supporters. Almost as shocked as I was last year when a CEO thought he knew more about American race relations than his customers, and was free to hector them with an evangelic fervor. So I’m sure we’ll overcome the vitriolic division of Hillary and the media’s crude tribal politics as well.
True fact, @Starbucks: Liberals once believed people shouldn’t be valued for the color of their skin. #RaceTogether pic.twitter.com/6qAl4sPWjg
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) March 22, 2015
UPDATE: “When you give yourself and your political party over entirely to left-wing identity politics, issues of class become invisible to you, and you end up forgetting that you ever knew people like the white working-class and rural people of the Rust Belt. You lose elections that way. I do not like identity politics. I believe it is dangerous, especially in a pluralistic democracy like ours. But look, if that’s how the left is going to rig the system, then it should not be surprised when white people get tired of it, and decide to play by the same hardball rules.”