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Jessica Valenti

Oct 26, 2020

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What Trump Supporters and NXIVM Followers Have in Common

They both follow misogynist liars whose ‘movements’ are just thinly veiled cults

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As I was watching Starz’ Seduced, the second documentary series to come out in recent months about Keith Raniere and NXIVM, I started to understand why pop culture is so engrossed by the story of the…

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