Maddow: Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (again)

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow looks at the powerful political momentum Democrats had built, including massive nationwide protests and a wildly successful election, only to have their unity falter on the shutdown fight with Republicans, resulting in capitulation that leaves many Americans who'd been encouraging Democrats to stand up and fight feeling hopeless and dispirited. Senator Bernie Sanders talks with Maddow about his objections to vote, Democratic plans going forward, and why "the Democratic establishment" should be the target of primarying.

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0:00.0	Thanks you at home for being with us this hour.
0:01.5	Super happy to have you here.
0:02.6	Tomorrow is Veterans Day.
0:04.3	Veterans Day is not Memorial Day.
0:07.0	Memorial Day is the very somber day when we remember and honor people who have sacrificed
0:12.4	their lives for this country.
0:14.5	Memorial Day happens in the spring.
0:17.2	Veterans Day is tomorrow.
0:18.7	And Veterans Day is celebratory.
0:21.6	It is a not-at-all somber day where we celebrate with parades and parties and all different ways to honor American veterans, to celebrate them to say thank you.
0:31.6	So happy Veterans Day, Dad, tomorrow this Veterans Day. There's going to be a ton of protests
0:39.1	against the Trump administration under the banner of vets say no. Tomorrow protests are
0:46.5	planned by veterans groups all over the country in at least 25 different states, everywhere
0:51.4	from Alabama to Texas to North Carolina to Ohio, all up and down
0:57.0	the West Coast, all throughout the Midwest. It's protests by both veterans and their supporters.
1:02.6	The Veterans Day protest in Washington, D.C. tomorrow is going to be under the banner,
1:07.4	say no to war on our cities. The veterans groups organizing these protests say they're
1:13.0	particularly focused on cities like Washington, D.C., which Trump has threatened with military
1:19.6	occupation in one way or another. This weekend in Illinois at the Broadview Ice Facility in Chicago,
1:27.4	a group of mothers engaged
1:29.7	in civil disobedience on the street outside that facility.
1:33.4	They sat down and were arrested in protest of Trump's immigration agents last week, charging
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