Rupert Murdoch could, if he is not careful, inadvertently elect Donald Trump president

The Dark Master of Media is playing with fire.  Last year, when the potential threat to a second Bush Restoration was Rand Paul and his libertarians, Rupert Murdoch let it be known through Twitter that he might support Hillary Clinton if the "wrong" person wound up with the GOP nomination.

Now with Hillary in collapse over her email scandal, and JEB! on the ropes over his obvious incompetence as a candidate, and Trump's flirtation  with postmodern reality show fascism treading on Murdoch's turf, the Lord of Fox appears to be losing his hold on things as the prospect of a great unraveling of his hegemony looms.

So desperate is he to remain a relevant kingmaker that he is now floating the trial ballon of Michael Bloomberg as the plutocracy's savior if JEB! implodes.

Just one question. How well will those people in that Alabama football stadium take to "Big Gulp" Mike?


So if Trump takes the GOP nomination away from Murdoch and JEB!,  and God forbid, Biden does not run, Hillary implodes, and Bernie winds up with the Democratic nomination, would Murdoch then run Bloomberg as an independent, and the only "sane option"?  If he did, he would probably ironically elect Trump by splitting up the "anti-Trump" vote.

Murdoch has spent over thirty years selling fraudulent reactionary identity politics, and a politics of grievance in the service of elites, and now he is upset that he can't stop Trump's freelancing, and can't sell JEB! to an audience he has always considered useful idiots.

Murdoch is the Alfred Hugenberg of 21st century America.  He must feel about like his German counterpart did in the summer of 1933.