Rachel Maddow

or being afraid, but still doing it anyway.

And from the ground up, that huge effort by regular people in Minneapolis and people supporting them all around the country, it set everything in motion.

And now we are seeing what's called political pushback that is so widespread and that is so relentless and that is so strong, there is no resisting it, even if you, say, don't believe in democracy.

Local elected officials encouraging the peaceful protests, asking people to keep recording everything they can about the behavior of these lawless paramilitaries.

You'd then see local elected officials out among the people.

I mean, this was Governor Tim Walz and his wife at a vigil for Renee Goode.

This past Friday, Senator Amy Klobuchar and her husband at the huge peaceful protests in Minneapolis.

We're going to speak with Senator Klobuchar in just a moment.

I mean, you have you have Democratic force massed on one side of this issue.

And on the other side, they have guns and tear gas and physical brutality and menace and their propaganda about how terrible immigrants are and how terrible, you know, how everybody's against them as a communist or whatever.

I mean, that's what they've got.

They've got physical force.

weapons, menace, and propaganda.

That's what they've got on their side.

But there is massed, committed, small-D democratic force of great resolve against that on the other.

And guess which side wins?

And so after they killed Alex Preti on Saturday, we very quickly saw it all fall apart for them.

Not because somebody defeated them in physical battle, right?

They're the ones who are geared up like the way they're going to win, the way they're going to overthrow this democracy is in some kind of war, right?

They can just have just the right military gear and just the right threatening, physical, intimidating force.