Stephanie Ruhle Laments Policy Changes After Boulder, Colorado Firebombing Attack

Posted • June 9, 2025: MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to discuss the Trump Administration, Harvard, and the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. While Maher and The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg tried to take a nuanced approach to the issue, as well as with Trump’s fight with Harvard, Ruhle was more rigid as she insisted we should not “set government policy based on what one horrible individual in a terrible act” did.

After Maher and Goldberg observed that there were red flags that should have suggested the Boulder terrorist was no good, Ruhle lamented, “But now we have become so divided and so angry we are meeting hate with hate and one could reasonably argue a guy like Stephen Miller shouldn't be the one deciding what decency is. And we should be able to come together and say, rather than just fight more hate, how do we get to be pro-decency? Pro compassion? And actually love? Because when you talk about patriotism, patriotism is about love of country and when I hear this administration talk about the things that they — it's all about the grievance and anger. If you get us back to a place of common decency and loving thy neighbor, it's not about anti-immigration it’s about—”

Maher then jumped in with an obvious point, “Okay, but I can just imagine people out there hearing this and saying, ‘Well, the guy with a flamethrower, he wasn't exactly full of love.’” (…)

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