The downside of this phenomenon has been a big, ugly sorting of journalistic talent in a fashion that evokes Robert Conquest’s famous law about the ideology of institutions — anything not explicitly Right will inevitably become Left. Progressives now clearly feel entitled to ownership of a great many media outlets never previously intended to be ideological, and this expectation of control explains the growing difficulty many on the center-right face in straining to be a “good” or “safe” conservative voice in a non-conservative space.