Dressed up in the language of strength, the speech lurched between teenage fantasy and outright gaslighting—while signalling something far more chilling in practice, reports Holly Baxter
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Dressed up in the language of strength, the speech lurched between teenage fantasy and outright gaslighting—while signalling something far more chilling in practice, reports Holly Baxter
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