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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.
(Cheering and Applause)
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.
(Cheering and Applause)
And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
(Cheering and Applause)
This is not only how we stop Trump, it‘s how we stop the next one.
(Cheering and Applause)
So, Donald Trump, since I know you‘re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up!”