It will be of great comfort to the Ailes family that their Roger, like his client President, will always have his little band of online apologists and admirers. Modern conservatism is a shell of what it was decades ago, its moderate and rational minority overwhelmed by the prejudiced mob, by those who prefer the earnest amateurs of the blogosphere and talk-radio to qualified professionals/scientists/journalists -- they denounce the dreaded "MSM" and instead embrace the blowhards at Fox and the bigots at Breitbart, the buffoon Alex Jones, the show-biz poseur Milo. They cultivate their own ignorance, with pandering Republicans and cynics like Murdoch and Ailes eager to exploit them. The U.S. today is what its harshest critics and satirists always claimed it was.