Naturally, Schultz is considering running as a “centrist independent,” opposed to “unrealistic policies and promises” such as single-payer health care and tuition-free college. But, of course, he’s socially liberal — against Trump’s border wall and in favor of LGBTQ rights. He’s an American Dreamer, self-made with his own resolve and good, old-fashioned American opportunity, as he relishes to remind us. Consider health care: In 2017, among the United States’ 27.4 million uninsured, non-elderly adults, 51 percent were black or Hispanic . Soft-spoken libertarianism, which is actually what Schultz is hawking, is not a step forward in terms of progressive goals.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2019 22:45 UTC