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Rachel Maddow: “The fight that we're in now is to shore up those guardrails…”

Featuring: Rachel Maddow, Liberal | MSNBC Host | National

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Rachel Maddow's full interview with Kamala Harris I MSNBC EXCLUSIVE

Published | Video Starts at 08:15

Every single guardrail that is supposed to protect our democracy is buckling. I thought those guardrails would be stronger. I was wrong. But now, of course, the Election is over. And with the election now over, The fight that we're in now is to shore up those guardrails, to rebuild them where they have fallen. to make powerful people less cowardly somehow, to stop people and institutions from capitulating. And if they do capitulate, the job now, the fight now is to get them to see they were wrong to do so and to get them to reverse themselves. (08:15–08:22)

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Asserts the current effort is to rebuild democratic guardrails.

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