Posted on 04/27/2018 3:39:01 PM PDT by mandaladon
Conservative outlet RedState fired most of its staff Friday while its owner, Salem Media, froze the site, citing an inability to "no longer support the entire roster of writers and editors."
"The site name will linger, but RedState is all but dead now. I have invited the fired writers here," Erick Erickson, a RedState founder who left the site in 2015, wrote in a blog post.
Fired staffers said the cuts focused on writers who have been critical of President Trump. RedState had often distinguished itself since 2016 as a home for Trump critics within the GOP.
RedState staffers were reportedly locked out of their accounts on a temporary or permanent basis, depending on job status, while the firings were being carried out.
Patrick Frey, a RedState blogger who goes by the name of "Patterico" online, wrote on Twitter that "those let go are all Trump critics" while "his supporters remain."
Erickson also echoed Frey's sentiment in his Friday blog post, stating the dividing line was drawn between supporters of the president while "those insufficiently loyal to the President were fired."
"My understanding from the writers is that there were two contracts, one more expensive than the other. Most of those on the expensive contracts were tossed, though some very good ones will stay," wrote Erickson, himself a critic of the president.
"Of those under the cheaper contracts, it seems the dividing line was loyalty to the President. In fact, among those under the expensive contracts, I'm aware of some writers having near equal traffic generation, and those insufficiently loyal to the President were fired," he added.
A memo to staff obtained by CNN by a general manager of Salem-owned Townhall.com confirmed the "tough changes" made at RedState.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Conservatives don’t like to hear the President bashed.
NeverTrumpers were a minority in the conservative movement and they won’t be missed.
Heard Erickson blubbering about this on Atlanta radio this afternoon. I was trying to get the traffic report. I can’t imagine any other reason for tuning in his show.
Good. Get lost!
Could be they are getting off the Cheap Labor Express and hopping on board the MAGA train.
Management knows that association with anti-Trump “Republicans” is a brand killer.
bump
Redstate was a bunch of #NeverTrumpers even after Trump had won the nomination. I hope they fold.
Now the NeverTrumps can link arms NeoCons and become the NeoBolsheviks.
“after all these years, they’ve turned off my account.” - Eric Erickson
YES!
I dropped redstate during the primary before I even supported Trump. It was that bad. They were unhinged and remained so to this day. Killed the brand. I may reward Salem with a second chance now.
RedState has been a dirty cesspool of MAGA-hate for years. F’-em.
Good. I knew Salem would not allow it’s brand to be diminished by these fools for long.
No, the Site had Zero activity, which equals unemployment.
ERICK ERICKSON: I think that if Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, the Republican Party ceases to be the party that I was an elected representative of so there is going to have to be the ground work for a new political party in the country that represents people who typically have been Republican voters in the past.
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