When Rachel Maddow (and others) say: “If we’re worried about our democracy....”
The “our” does not include me and it does not include you either. It’s a possessive pronoun.
Never minding the fact, of course, which most Americans have forgotten or never learned at all in the first place, that The United States of America was never founded as a democracy at all.
... and to the Republic for which it stands
See my tagline.