In a fiery speech after his win, the next mayor of New York warned Trump that the city will stand united: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
In his first speech as the next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani made clear he and his city are coming for Donald Trump.
“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said at his victory speech in Brooklyn Tuesday night. “And if there’s any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”
“So Donald Trump,” he added, “since I know you’re watching — I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.”
When Obama took the stage on that stadium after his 2008 victory, to a screaming crowd, I was glad to see the Republican War Criminals out, but I never bought into the “Hope & Change” nonsense. I knew that he would be mostly a weak placeholder Democrat between destructive Republicans, who would do nothing to slow their steady rise to MAGA.
Besides a few Congressional Reps like AOC, Crockett, and Frost, we finally have a Democratic Socialist leader who doesn’t have to get MAGA’s permission do do what needs to be done, and with the courage to actually do it.
If he succeeds, it’s proof of concept in one of the biggest cities on the world, and that terrifies both MAGAs AND Democrats.