But many of the site’s veterans – Erick, Leon, Caleb, myself, and others – took vocal stances against Trump, and that generated controversy and division, just as it has at many conservative media outlets. The sad reality is that there may be more supply of quality conservative writing skeptical of Trump than there is demand for it. More than a few prominent writers on the Right seem to have felt it necessary to bend in one direction (compromising their doubts about Trump to cater to conservative audiences) or the other (compromising their conservatism to cater to anti-Trump audiences). (My emphasis.)
May these loathsome, supercilious, pearl clutching traitors, who would have elected the Witch if they could, plunging all of us into an endless, hideous Marxist tyranny that they supposedly oppose, be flushed into history's septic tank.
Nobody wants to hear the President attacked.
Who has done more for conservatism than all of RedState and NRO’s writers combined.
Never Trump snobs are just too finicky to acknowledge it.
More winning!
It’s like Trump said “You’re FIRED!”.
There are plenty left in the Gov’t/LSM cabal who need to be shown the door to improve the Society.
It was their anti-Trump bias that killed them.
If you are a “Conservative” publication, and anti-Trump, your days are numbered.
It was a stupid era. I’m glad it’s over.
I am amazed by the bad instincts of some of our conservative, eh, thinkers. That and their inability to learn from their mistake after the fact. Jonah Goldberg is the classic example. He writes the best conservative book of the 2000s, Liberal Fascism, then gets it completely wrong on Trump, and then persists in his wrongness when it’s obvious that he’s wrong. The whole never-Trumper thing really drives home the notion of human fallibility.
“May these loathsome, supercilious, pearl clutching traitors, who would have elected the Witch if they could, plunging all of us into an endless, hideous Marxist tyranny that they supposedly oppose, be flushed into history’s septic tank.”
Works for me; thanks for saying what so many are thinking.
That’s what you get for naming your publication “RED State.” Better dead than Commie RED.
“May these loathsome, supercilious, pearl clutching traitors...”
And it looks like these holier-than-thou purists, these jackals, who would prefer for the witch to lead the country into oblivion rather than sully themselves with anything to do with Trump, are headed up by Jeff Sessions.
A modicum of dissenting option would have fostered debate and kept them alive but they would have none of that.
'YOU MUST HATE TRUMP AS MUCH AS WE DO OR YOU WILL BE BANNED!'
I didn't wait to be banned. I just stopped reading anything they wrote. (Though I never spent much time there anyway).
RedState created their own insular anti-Trump hate-bubble and they suffocated.
Good riddance. What the heck do they want at this stage of the game? These nutcases would rather have Hillary? I actually asked that question of a ‘never Trumper’ and he said he would rather have had Hillary. This is insanity.
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
Generally, I avoid RedState because it has looked to me like a bunch of Never-Trump corporate shills. A whole lot of heat and not much light, if you know what I mean.
In light of the shake-up, I was curious and went over. It looks greatly improved.
This article had one particularly interesting line,
“once stood for telling the powers that be in DC to shut up and listen to the people who took their promises at face value”
This seems a bit of a simplistic view of “Deplorables” and seems to be the other side of that same slanderous coin. The fact is that nobody believes DC or Congress. They have long been less popular than a broken sewer line in the summer.
The Gateway Pundit:
#NeverTrump Troll Website Redstate Finally Shut Down Over Lack of Interest
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/nevertrump-troll-website-redstate-finally-shut-down-over-lack-of-interest/
The site was exactly the opposite of this, National Review! I hope you are next!
It would be great to see NR go next, though I imagine they already have enough dark money to keep them going.
I didn’t even know about these guys. If it’s not on FR, it’s crap.
Well, bye!
And, take NationalRINOview with you!
Aren’t these the same people who were threatening “purges” of anyone in the Media, like Sean Hannity, who support Trump before the 2016 election?
Good bye to bad rubbish. They will not be missed
I have no problem with passionate debate during the primaries. When people like Eric “the Buffoon” Erickson and those at Red State attempted to undermined Trump and elect Hillary. they went far over a line that can not be walked back. That they continue to daily try to undermine Trump they now crossed the line from “disagreement” to political treason.
Erickson, and others supposed “Conservatives”, who out of nothing more then petulance, ego and childish spite, are actively providing political PR for enemies of everything Conservatives are suppose to stand for have earned no quarter from Conservatives. Never Trumpers are no longer a “friend an ally” who we disagree with but are now active enemies that needs to be defeated and politically destroyed