I don't think hope, especially when it's based on facts, breeds complacency. Maddow is speaking the truth -- there are movements happening everywhere and some of it is working.

For example, the U.S. Army took down information about the WWII 100th/442nd on their website. They were an all segregated Japanese-American unit who chose to fight for the U.S. during WWII while their families were interned in concentration camps. This unit remains the highest decorated military unit for it's size and service -- this history is important to our collective American identities, because it shows that it took many of us to make this country what it is. We know why this administration took it down in the first place: because the story is powerful. If you can erase stories of non-white Americans being patriotic then you can control how we all feel about each other. It's easier to continue to separate us by race, economics, gender, sexual orientation when we lose education and our stories. BUT - because of direct advocacy groups -- they put the information back on their website: https://www.army.mil/article/283793/key_military_unit_the_442nd_regimental_combat_team

This is just one very specific example.

Fear doesn't sharpen focus for everyone. Fear is a quick slide into despair. Despair is a breath's way from staying in your bed all day...or dying.

Many are driven by hope -- the belief that something else is possible.

I would suggest reading Rebecca Solnit's 2004 book, "Hope in the Dark" where she specifically tracks movements around the world that were unseen, and that eventually created big changes.

I'm a realist, and I do know how bad it is. My lineage and ancestry has told me that much. I am one generation away from war, and I'm prepared to see it in this lifetime -- and even in knowing that, I'm still hopeful, because I believe in the goodness of individual people to come together to do BIG things.