Mamdani: I Have Four Words for Trump ‘Turn the Volume Up’

MAMDANI: “Together we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
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After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.
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And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
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This is not only how we stop Trump, it‘s how we stop the next one.
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So, Donald Trump, since I know you‘re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up!
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We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.
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We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.
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We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.
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New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.
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So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
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