Maddow: To block Trump's agenda, help Republican politicians find their spines

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow emphasizes the importance of resistance by Republican legislators to Donald Trump's agenda, and points out that the unpopularity of Trump's actions may help that resistance politically, but also some senators, like Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, have enough expertise in their chosen field to know how destructive Trump and his Cabinet are, and may be vulnerable to pressure on those issues.

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0:00.0	Let's do something different.
0:02.3	Want some inspiration?
0:04.9	I know this is like not typically the way that we start things, but I don't know.
0:11.2	Complain.
0:11.9	Go ahead.
0:14.0	Send me your complaints.
0:16.7	Governor J.B. Pritzker is the governor of Illinois.
0:19.5	He gave his state of the State speech today.
0:22.6	And I'm going to show you some of it.
0:24.0	I'm showing you about three minutes of it.
0:25.3	And I know this is a little bit of a weird thing to put at the top of a national newscast.
0:28.8	But I just, you know what?
0:30.6	I think this is really something.
0:31.8	And I think you should watch it.
0:33.1	This is from the end of his state of the state today.
0:36.1	Check it out.
0:45.8	As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois, once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world.
0:50.4	In 1978, Nazis decided that they wanted to march there.
0:57.0	The leaders of that march knew that the images of swastika-clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population,
1:02.9	so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.
1:08.7	The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the
1:13.6	Supreme Court. I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly, but I know the history intimately
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