The Left’s perennial scolds of CBS News churned out barrels of umbrage over hiring conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as part of the new team of correspondents at 60 Minutes. Douthat has often been pitched as the “thoughtful liberal’s favorite conservative,” as if “thoughtful liberals” can stand being in the same room as a conservative. It’s simply implausible to claim to be conservative and then vote for the current reigning ideology among the Democrats. No one should expect The Times to hire a new columnist who writes positive words about Donald Trump. None of these media elitists recognize the irony in their hardened position – that Trump is such an authoritarian threat that these troubled times demand complete anti-Trump unanimity – no internal democracy allowed.