Corporate media has at times seemed to almost positively encourage this scenario given Trump's frontrunner status for the Republicans.

Here's one of a seeming myriad examples of the MSM being not exactly "subtle":

"Everything will change for European and Asian democracies if a man bent on dictatorship re-enters the White House," wrote Financial Times.

"If Trump wins, everything changes," the op-ed continued, with the author at one point suggesting even that nuclear Armageddon is right around the corner the minute Trump returns to office: 

"The most worrying hedge against Washington's exit from Pax Americana would be a rush for the nuclear threshold," FT wrote.