Zohran Mamdani: “Power is something that you can build.”

“… simply surrender to the, you know, the reality of a Republican trifecta, because what they understand is what all of us understand, which is that power is not simply technical. Power is something that you can build. Power is something that you can contest for the narratives that underpin these majorities. Because too often it seems that the Democratic response has been, there's not much we can do here.” (49:41–49:44)

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