What's the difference between demagogism and principle?
Demagogism
Definition:
(n.) The practices of a demagogue.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
(2) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
(3) So the student question must be addressed on its own merits, not thrown into a demagogic hotpot marked "immigration" (aka "bloody foreigners").
(4) Fidel called President Obama's conference remarks ' deceitful, demagogic and ambiguous ,'" a cable said.
(5) The Ocean Hill-Brownsville affair had a lasting and damaging effect on the politics of the city, since in the past Jews and African Americans had formed a powerful liberal bloc; now many Jews drifted to the "neo-conservative" right, while many black New Yorkers were alienated from mainstream politics and driven to back more or less demagogic black politicians.
(6) The HDP and other Erdogan opponents contend that the current political climate has been stoked by the demagogic Turkish president, who, stung by the election setback in June , is eager to put the pro-Kurdish party back in its corner.
(7) Instead of being an expansive, outward-looking, globalist power, the United States has definitively turned inward, shutting its borders to Mexicans, Muslims and any number of other perceived enemies of Trump’s demagogic imagination.
(8) Liberals will describe this as a failure of consensus politics that has been driven by the lowest suspicion and prejudice available in American society, manipulated by big business, pandered to by lax or demagogic media companies, such as Fox News, and ridden by ambitious politicians who promise a fantasy land that they cannot deliver.
(9) In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised by politicians to win popular support In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised and scapegoated by demagogic politicians and fundamentalist clerics as a cheap way to win popular support.
(10) As to the demagogic meddling of the mayor of London – who thinks it would have been "wholly commonsensical" to arrest Mitchell – it's if nothing else a useful reminder that Boris Johnson is never knowingly outshitted.
(11) Instead of Roosevelt, the supposed lackey of Jewish finance, Johnson and a friend, Alan Blackburn, fixed on Huey P Long, and then, when that odious Lousiana governor was assassinated, a demagogic priest from Michigan, Father Coughlin, as allies.
(12) Conspiratorial, at times smacking of racism when he spoke of droves of Arab citizens of Israel being bussed to polling stations, and playing on the notion of the right as the victim of an alliance of the left and unnamed foreign powers, it was an appeal both demagogic and pitched to be alarmist.
(13) Proactively, it seeks to meet the crisis on every level on which it manifests itself by changing strategies, winning over popular layers with "demagogic promises", and pre-empting and isolating opponents.
(14) Talking about ‘defending Europe’ is not just demagogic, it’s unworthy.” The activist movement’s leaders, who call themselves ‘Identitarians’ , are in Catania awaiting the arrival of C-Star, which left Djibouti earlier this month.
(15) Demagogic in style and undemocratic in nature, there is no percolation of political ideas from the membership to the leadership.
(16) In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.
(17) "It is a perfectly demagogic tactic … No one is taken in.
(18) German’s doughty finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has warned of the scourge of “demagogic populism”, while the EU’s economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, suggested Europe’s voters might be poised “to destroy it”.
(19) On Monday Seracini described the petition as sour grapes, an attempt "by the excluded to block extraordinary research", adding: "This demagogic attack risks Italy being derided around the world."
(20) Avoiding demagogic confrontation will be a priority for Berlin, the provider of the bulk of Greece’s €240bn bailout.
Principle
Definition:
(n.) Beginning; commencement.
(n.) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
(n.) An original faculty or endowment.
(n.) A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
(n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.
(n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.
(v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
(2) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(5) Using the MTT assay and analyzing the data using the median-effect principle, we showed that synergistic cytotoxic interactions exist between CDDP and VM in their liposomal form.
(6) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
(7) The binding follows the principle of isotope dilution in the physiologic range of vitamin B12 present in human serum.
(8) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(9) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(10) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
(11) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
(12) It seems tragic, then, that so little of these principles transfer over to the container in which the work is done.
(13) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(14) The general principles of bypass surgery as they affect the cerebral circulation are reviewed.
(15) The interest of this view resides in the resulting general principle of classification and interpretation of all forms of disease, giving rise to an "existenialistic pathology".
(16) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(17) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(18) In older stages, the cervical joints rotate according to geometric and lever arm principles.
(19) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(20) The principles and practice of aneasthesia for patients having coronary bypass grafts are discussed.