UNION PARTY POSTER, 1864
Howard Schultz is an impressive guy. He is not going to be elected President.
What else can he do with his talents and money?
Howard should bring back the Union Party
The usual problem with American third parties has been that they can never govern. The Constitution was intentionally written for a one party system. Hamilton, Adams and Washington were firmly opposed to what thyey called “factions.” As a result we have an unwritten constitution that mandates two parties. Under that Constitution, states fund PARTY elections and both state legislatures and the Congress have rules that assume two parties.
Today Trump loyalty means more than whatever else defines the GOP.
There is another choice. Return to 1864 when the GOP was itself two parties. Instead of running for President, If I were Howard Schultz, I would take my talent and money and use the name that was used by dissident Republicans during Reconstruction .. the UNION party. The Union party represented the moderate wing of the GOP> Lincoln ran in 1864 on the Union ticket!
So, Howard, with support from other like minded “people of means,” I would suggest you go to likely Republicans (mainly) and offer to TOTALLY fund their election IF they would declare membership in the Union party instead of the GOP.
All Schultz would need to do is elect 10 Unionists. I suspect he would get a number of independents to also choose to work with the Union caucus. These Unionistas would have the controlling vote in the Senate and control the kind of extremism that Trump has promoted.
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