Schultz knows the stakes and he knows, too, that he is anathema to Democrats. (Neera Tanden, an influential Democratic activist, tweeted that she was so mad she was willing to forego the occasional macchiato: “If he enters the race, I will start a Starbucks boycott because I’m not giving a penny that will end up in the election coffers of a guy who will help Trump win.”) Such naysaying is not likely to matter to Schultz because the difference between the average person and the self-made billionaire is that, at a critical moment, he ignored the braying of the herd and listened to his gut. Schultz did that when he took a risk and left Starbucks to form his own coffeehouse operation after his employers had turned down an idea. Two years later, he bought Starbucks