Reminds me of Hotair.com's total collapse some years after Michelle Malkin sold it to Salem Communications in 2010 and the site's authors became more and more openly antagonistic to the commenters. By the 2011 primary season, most people just came there to chat (very like this thread, actually) and nobody even read the articles anymore (very like A&N, actually).
The site's writers were really anti-Sarah Palin, pro-Romney types, iirc, and they all went absolutely nuts around the time Trump showed up in 2015. Around that time they killed the comment section by forcing everyone to sign up with Facebook accounts, and everyone left for a few different sites the more frequent commenters created as a fuck-you to Hotair. I think one of the sites was called Hotgas, which Rick Perry called Hotair during a debate or something back in 2012.
Anyway, I assume the site is dead now, I haven't heard of it since 2016. Hell of a fall from grace; one of the writers was instrumental in killing Dan Rather's hoax (Allahpundit, I think?) with the Texas guard documents he faked. But that's lolbertarians for you, they always eventually seethe and resent their audience until it destroys them. Very female-brained, lolbertarians.
Edit: It was Allahpundit; Mary Mapes blamed him for killing Dan Rather's fake document hoax
They were at one point the Rightwing answer to DailyKOS, now that you mention it.