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It's kind of true. "Super good at rhetoric" is relative. Normies get BTFO by guys called Dirlewanger_Respecter on twitter all the time. When you adopt extremist and fringe political positions you have to develop at least some rudimentary rhetorical skills to defend them, which may not be all that much, but are still leagues beyond those of your average person who rarely thinks even that much about their politics.
I think another contributing factor might be that everyone else is using weighted clothing, so to speak. Dirlewanger_Respecter doesn't have to give a shit that his argument could be construed as racist or sexist or transphobic, and at the same time he doesn't have to dance around all the various inconvenient truths that lie in wait for non-shitlords. Adolf_Kekler_42069 can make the correct argument that having massive riots and burning things down isn't actually a method of protest that contributes to achieving political goals, but if you're on the left saying something like that is enough to get you fired, even if you're so non-racist you actually worked on Obama's campaign. A significant portion of the "good, useful arguments" space is just completely verboten thanks to social justice culture/purity policing.
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The people in question are internet political and cultural commentators. Not normies. They're not those annoying prank channels, these are the people discussing ideology, philosophy, politics, etc. They talk a lot about ideas and theories, they only show their own incompetence when they demonstrate an inability to do rhetoric effectively.
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