From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. After almost a year of prognostication that Donald Trump could never,

ever win the GOP nomination.

Well, you know.

But now a funny thing is happening.

Rather than shame, fear, or chagrin,

the columnists and talking heads are feeling a frisson,

titulation in the form of speculation.

As they say, desperate times call for desperate measures.

Voters in this country right now are rejecting a two-party system. And we could have a third-party independent Republican candidacy this fall,

I think. But not just any third-party candidacy. As former Politico CEO Jim Vandahy wrote in an

op-ed last month, the ideal candidate would be an innovator, someone who would embrace Silicon Valley

and disrupt the establishment, someone like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg,

or, as journalist Mike Allen said in 2012, someone who understands that we live in a time when

American people want a sort of more muted politics, this more centrist politics.

Like who?

That's exactly where Michael Bloomberg is.

Or, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman noted in 2011, what we really need is someone

who gets that...

We need a shock to the system.

The country, in my view, is in a radical mood.

Like who? If Michael Bloomberg wants to run, I'm very happy to vote for him.

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