‘Karenism': Teals in the spotlight in last week of federal election campaigning

The Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair says the Teals have the spotlight in the last week of campaigning before the federal election.
'Today's just been Teal across the board, hasn't it – my favourite one though, will be, you've mentioned it already in this show, was the scampering away with the Liberal candidates call flute and then the immediate: 'oh, it's nothing to do with me, it'll be taken down' again,' Mr Blair said.
'It wasn't an immediate apology as well … as Monique pointed it out, but I mentioned in the column that these people have weaponised Karen's, they're very Karen-ish in all their behaviours.
'I'm kind of annoyed at myself for not noticing the Karenism earlier.'

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