Things aren’t going well at MSNBC. After Donald Trump’s re-election, their ratings plummeted, and Comcast is now trying to unload the left-wing network. Given this situation, you might think that the higher-ups would try to make massive changes.
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However, that doesn’t happen. Instead, the channel continues to make Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough its face. Still, a stuck clock is technically correct twice a day, and Middle Class host Stephanie Ruhle managed one of those moments on Friday morning. However, let’s start where she goes wrong, because that’s instructive.
RUHLE: Elon Musk bought just part of this MAGA news.
What Democrats refuse to accept is that the problem is not dissemination of information to the public. The problem is that no one likes the information She split. 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 center for free speech for all. Ruhle rightly recognizes that right-wing content is on the rise, but she completely misunderstands the reason. The resurgence of right-wing thought was not due to a nefarious plan, but rather because the previous regime had suppressed these voices. They always existed, as did the popularity of their positions.
Would Democrats have stopped worrying about “disinformation” and instead done some introspection? how unpopular Their positions were that they might have been able to change course in time to influence the election. Instead, they followed Principal Skinner’s principle and decided that they were not the problem. See, it was just those pesky voters who were too stupid to know what was best for them.
Ruhle is absolutely right in the next part of her comment.
However, the election is over. Everyone is getting smarter and better. I’m not sure if it’s the right idea to leave Twitter and just go to Bluesky, a friendlier place, because then we’ll stay in our echo chambers. I don’t think you should necessarily stay on Twitter every day and fight and let all the hate that comes your way bring you down, but I want to see it. I want to read what happens there, right? And that’s why I think it’s crucial to at least stay in those spaces because I want to hear the other things happening.
There is currently an attempt by leftists to launch a social media site called “Bluesky”. For comparison, it’s a place where you’ll be automatically banned if you say there are two genders. Ruhle uses the term “echo chamber,” and that’s exactly what it is. It’s a site where Democrats can get slapped in the face for their radicalism without any backlash. Does this sound familiar? We experienced a similar, short-lived exodus to “Threads” in 2023.
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Far be it from me to give Democrats advice, but I’ll be nice and offer some. The worst What they could do after being screwed in the last election is lock themselves in their unthreatening spaces. Whether Bluesky or MSNBC itself, they only serve to reinforce the very things that have ended the Democrats’ dream of an “emerging majority.” You should, as Ruhle says, “want to hear the other things that are happening” when it comes to X. This is essentially America’s online public square. If they don’t, they will only fall further into the radicalism that brought them defeat in the first place.
Of course, Ruhle could just as easily be talking to a wall. Whether democratic elites return to X or not, the bigger problem is accepting what they see. I see no reason to believe this will happen since it hasn’t taken two weeks for them to argue again that men should exploit women’s restrooms and that boys playing girls’ sports are neither unfair nor hazardous. You can’t change unless you want to change. This is why I suspect we will continue to see “disinformation” as blame game instead of real introspection.
