Red State is and has always been garbage and several of us predicted that Salem would not allow their brand to be tarnished forever.
Now Execrable Erick needs to be fired too.
My guess is that Erick or someone will create a site to host the ousted bloggers.
Erick cashed out back in 2015; has a nice job hosting the PM news on WSB-AM in Atlanta, a 50,000 watt blowtorch that is perennially #1 in the ratings.
Probably saw the handwriting on the wall and sold the site. Since he founded it on a shoestring, the return on original investment was probably six or seven figures. Meanwhile, a lot of the fellow, Never Trumpers he hired are now out of work. Can’t imagine Salem was making any real money from the site, so they decided to pull the plug. It will probably be back, but with a much more conservative editorial slant.
If you’d read just a few lines into the article, you’d know he left Red State in 2015 so it would be kind of hard to fire him.