RedState Is No More

[EasyAce]

RedState's owners have engaged in a mass purge of talent.
By Erick Erickson
https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/redstate-is-no-more-uoT86A-iT0i4rC6OSzF7wA/?full=1

When RedState started in 2004, it was about collaborating between all sides of the GOP and, after I took over, had a real grassroots focus. Since the Salem purchase of Eagle Publishing, the grassroots focus went away as did the community building aspect in favor of clickbait with analysis.

Thankfully, Salem is retaining some very good writers who have long been at RedState, but today engaged in a mass purge of most of the writers.

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. 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 . . .

. . . It is unfortunate, but the reality is that Salem never had any idea what to do with RedState and it was very obvious. It is one of the many reasons I chose to retire from the site after a ten year run as editor. They've really stopped driving a conversation among conservatives in the past few years as they turned to clickbait and now will really just be a clickbait site it seems.

That is unfortunate. It is also one reason I wanted to start rebuilding a community here . . .

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"RedState was a rare thing these days in the conservative media: a platform for an array of different opinions about President Trump."---Rosie Gray, The Atlantic

[Oceander]

I’ve been following this from another site - a blog written by a guy who was also a redstate contributor and who was amongst those cut.  The determining factor definitely seems to have been fealty to Trump.  The guys blog is www.patterico.com

[EasyAce]

I’ve been following this from another site - a blog written by a guy who was also a redstate contributor and who was amongst those cut.  The determining factor definitely seems to have been fealty to Trump.  The guys blog is www.patterico.com

Have the conservative media become so fractured that commentators, websites, and other outlets fall into pro-Trump and anti-Trump camps? Do we live in an era where the right could split over the support of one man? I fear that we only do our cause harm if we allow Donald Trump to create cracks and fissures in a movement that has plenty of room for so many.

I do know that one thing is true: RedState is shooting themselves in the foot by letting so many immense talents go.

---Chris Queen, PJMedia, a site that is not heretofore renowned as an anti-Donaldus Minimus site.

There’s a clear pattern that the people who were let go were all critics of Donald Trump. It was a complete surprise. There’d been rumors of contract changes but being fired was a complete surprise . . . It seems like the message of the firings is very clear: "We won’t tolerate strong criticism of this president."

---Patterico, who is attorney Patrick Frey, The Atlantic.

[Oceander]

Have the conservative media become so fractured that commentators, websites, and other outlets fall into pro-Trump and anti-Trump camps? Do we live in an era where the right could split over the support of one man? I fear that we only do our cause harm if we allow Donald Trump to create cracks and fissures in a movement that has plenty of room for so many.

I do know that one thing is true: RedState is shooting themselves in the foot by letting so many immense talents go.

---Chris Queen, PJMedia, a site that is not heretofore renowned as an anti-Donaldus Minimus site.

There’s a clear pattern that the people who were let go were all critics of Donald Trump. It was a complete surprise. There’d been rumors of contract changes but being fired was a complete surprise . . . It seems like the message of the firings is very clear: "We won’t tolerate strong criticism of this president."

---Patterico, who is attorney Patrick Frey, The Atlantic.

That’s the guy. 

[TomSea]

https://www.redstate.com/

[driftdiver]

What they call fealty is mostly just normal support.  What he calls criticism is a religous fervor to find fault with anything the President does.

For example were looking at the end of the Korean war and people still refuse to give Trump any credit.

[truth_seeker]

Little surprise that a rational owner, would cut back spending money, on anti-Trump editorial material.

"On August 31, 2017, The Blaze laid off nearly 60 employees, which drastically cut its personnel by almost 30%."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheBlaze

[EasyAce]

For example were looking at the end of the Korean war and people still refuse to give Trump any credit.

@driftdiver
I'm holding out until the war actually does end, silly me. If and when it does, I'll say thank you to Donaldus Minimus. But when it comes to dealing
with Communist countries, what's left of them, I always found it the perfect rule to trust your mother but cut the cards.

[INVAR]

For example were looking at the end of the Korean war and people still refuse to give Trump any credit.

Remember, we are not allowed to.  We are only allowed to credit your president if we were on the Trump train from the beginning, or swear eternal and total fealty and promise loyalty to him as our repentance from this point forward.

According to rabid Trump fanatics who have told us those things in no uncertain terms.

[driftdiver]

@driftdiver
I'm holding out until the war actually does end, silly me. If and when it does, I'll say thank you to Donaldus Minimus. But when it comes to dealing
with Communist countries, what's left of them, I always found it the perfect rule to trust your mother but cut the cards.

@EasyAce

It's the first time it's even been discussed.  Kind of a big step

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

It's the first time it's even been discussed.  Kind of a big step

Yes, but I'll still cut the cards. ;)