Sarah Matthews challenges Watters's "do something about it" diagnosis

The Bulwark's fast-spreading Short examines whether Fox's post-election commentary recognizes the scale of voters' rejection.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 218,142 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (16,600).

Fox News hosts spiral after MAGA's election defeat

Greg Gutfeld questions whether Democrats can fix the economy and handle Iran, then adds: "They can't even fix their party!" Sarah Matthews sees a different question worth asking: what have Republicans learned from losing?

The Bulwark's "Fox News hosts spiral after MAGA's election defeat" pairs footage from The Five with Matthews's response. It drew about 220,000 views in its first day, well beyond the channel's usual Shorts audience. Its comment section was more than twenty times as busy as a typical first day.

Jesse Watters acknowledges that voters across several regions turned against Donald Trump and Republicans. He interprets their message as an instruction to repair the damage: "Do something about it." But the clip also shows him mocking Democratic candidates' names, including Abdul El-Sayed's.

Matthews, a former deputy White House press secretary under Trump, argues that this response misses the meaning of the result. She criticizes the name-mocking and describes the election as "a resounding rebuke of Trump and MAGA politics," rather than simply a demand for Republicans to improve their performance.

Other unusually fast-starting Bulwark Shorts offer different responses to the same election. Tim Miller gets emotional discussing Adam Hamilton's victory and a different kind of politics. Sarah Longwell looks toward governing, suggesting that the size of Democrats' victory could push Trump toward making deals rather than retreating into confrontation.

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The numbers

The Fox commentary drew an unusually large first-day audience for a Bulwark Short, with an even sharper increase in comments.

the video's first day

usual first day here

16,600

this video

218,142

subscribers

1,820,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,346,210,090

views per day

3,978,349

typical day: 2,492,106

the video

views

221,742

likes

13,019

comments

1,508

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Roland S. Martin

1,960,000

Occupy Democrats

1,930,000

ContraPoints

1,910,000

The Bulwark

1,820,000

I've Had It

1,780,000

Cash Jordan

1,770,000

As of November 6, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.