Stephanie Ruhle Calls Herself a ‘Fat Chicken’ Who Got Suckered By MAGA, and Then Gets It Completely Right

Things aren’t going well over at MSNBC. Following Donald Trump’s re-election, their ratings have cratered, with Comcast now looking to unload the left-wing network. You’d think with that as the situation, the higher-ups would be looking to make big changes.

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That’s not happening, though. Instead, the network continues to make Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, and Joe Scarborough its face. Still, a stuck clock is technically right twice a day, and mid-level host Stephanie Ruhle managed to have one of those moments on Friday morning. However, let’s start with where she’s wrong because it’s instructive.

RUHLE: Elon Musk bought X and turned it into a, you know, the social media arm of the MAGA movement, and we all sat there right in the middle of it during the campaign, possibly not realizing that we were sitting there like fat chickens just getting attacked all day, and just being part of this MAGA messaging. 

What Democrats refuse to accept is that the problem is not the proliferation of information to the public. The problem is that no one likes the information they are sharing. Elon Musk didn’t buy Twitter and turn it into “the social media arm of the MAGA movement.” He bought Twitter and turned it into a hub of free speech for everyone. Ruhle rightly recognizes that right-wing content became ascendent, but she gets the reason completely wrong. The resurgence in right-wing thought was not because of some nefarious plan but because the previous regime had suppressed those voices. They always existed, as did the popularity of their positions. 

Had Democrats stopped worrying about “disinformation” and instead had some introspection about just how unpopular their positions were, they might have been able to change course in time to affect the election. Instead, they did the Principal Skinner line of deciding they weren’t the problem. You see, it was just those pesky voters being too dumb to know what’s best for them. 

With that said, Ruhle gets it completely right in the next part of her commentary. 

However, the election’s over. Everybody’s getting smarter and better. I’m not sure that the right idea is to leave Twitter and just go to Bluesky, a friendlier place because then we remain in our echo chambers. I don’t think you should necessarily stay on Twitter every day and battle it out and let yourself doom scroll of all the hate coming at you, but I want to see. I want to read what’s happening there, right? And so I think at least staying in those spaces is important because I want to hear the other things happening.

There’s currently a move by left-wingers to run over to a social media site called “Bluesky.” For context, it’s a place where you’ll get auto-banned for saying there are two genders. Ruhle uses the phrase “echo chamber,” and that’s exactly what it is. It’s a site where Democrats can get backslaps for their radicalism with no pushback whatsoever. Sound familiar? We saw a similar, short-lived exodus to “Threads” back in 2023.

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Far be it from me to give Democrats advice, but I’m going to be nice and offer some. The worst thing they could do after getting pantsed in the last election is to cocoon themselves into their safe spaces. Whether it’s Bluesky or MSNBC itself, all they serve to do is reinforce the very things that ended the Democrat dream of an “emergent majority” They should want to, as Ruhle says, “hear the other things happening” when it comes to X, which is essentially the online public square of America. If they don’t, they will just sink further into the radicalism that got them defeated in the first place.

Of course, Ruhle might as well be talking to a wall. Whether Democrat elites return to X or not, the bigger issue is accepting what they see. I see no reason to think that will happen given it didn’t take two weeks for them to return to arguing that men should use women’s restrooms and that boys playing girl’s sports isn’t unfair or dangerous. You can’t change unless you want to change, so I suspect we’ll continue to see “disinformation” blamed instead of any real introspection. 

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