If John Fugelsang is right, Donald Trump is destroying plans by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to help Jeb Bush get the nomination – thus assuring a win by Hillary Clinton! If it sounds crazy that they’d set Jeb! up to fall, consider the following. John Fugelsang observes that Fox never wanted to be the Mitt Romney network; they wanted to be the ‘Hate Obama Network’ and no one can argue that it hasn’t paid off handsomely. The ‘Hate Hillary Network’ is the natural next step.
Just don’t tell loyal Fox viewers that their favorite right-wing network has a left-wing agenda – when it suits them financially…But Trump has thrown Fox a curve ball. Trump has also – without knowing or caring, exposed the nastier elements of the audience Fox has procured and funneled into the GOP.
As Fugelsang noted; “The very fact that Donald Trump is exposing the dark, ugly underside of this party, the white nationalism, which Donald Trump didn’t create, he’s just the logical conclusion of it.” According to Fugelsang, this causes a problem for Ailes, “how to keep your rubes in the paddock when they’ve found a new sheppard.”