(n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Example Sentences:
(1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(2) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
(3) Privacy advocates contend Comey is demagoguing the issue.
(4) Why Livingstone is not recognised as one of the most unprincipled demagogues in Britain after this performance – why, indeed, Labour has not expelled him – is one of the wonders of the age.
(5) Critics describe him as an authoritarian populist and dangerous demagogue.
(6) Admittedly, these moments, when the left – broadly defined – stir the passions as effectively as any demagogue of the right are rare.
(7) If white Americans need black villains to feel superior in their decline as 2015 closes – and as the leading demagogue Republican candidate for president can confirm, they do – then innocent victims like Tamir will continue to be killed, and those who do so will be rewarded with acquittal, fame or even promotion .
(8) O’Rourke warned that perhaps Trump was not the real threat, but that his candidacy seemed to spark “an impulse to like a demagogue.” Carr agreed Trump could be “the harbinger of something to come.
(9) He also wrote A Face in the Crowd (1957), about a rising demagogue.
(10) I am the last person on Earth [Clinton] wants to run against.” But the bully, showman, party crasher and demagogue – as Time’s cover put it – is also the last person many Republicans want to see at the top of the ticket, though arch conservative Cruz comes close.
(11) The Financial Times Deutschland last week published an article on its front page headlined " Resist the demagogue ".
(12) The Saudi strategy to derail the nuclear agreement and perpetuate – and even exacerbate – tension in the region has three components: pressuring the West; promoting regional instability through waging war in Yemen and sponsoring extremism; and directly provoking Iran .” Zarif added: “Let us not forget that the perpetrators of many acts of terror … as well as nearly all members of extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Nusra Front, have been either Saudi nationals or brainwashed by petrodollar-financed demagogues who have promoted anti-Islamic messages of hatred and sectarianism for decades.” Other Arab countries followed their Sunni ally in cutting or reducing diplomatic ties with predominantly Shia Iran.
(13) Abandoning the vast single market across the Channel doesn’t just mean reducing Britain to the status of lapdog to the woman-groping Muslim-bashing demagogue across the Atlantic.
(14) Tsipras is criticised as a populist, even a demagogue.
(15) They feign outrage that a demagogue spewing vile ... is somehow winning in a party that has spent years telling immigrants they’re not welcome in America,” said Reid.
(16) In the US, the racist demagogue Donald Trump blames the Brussels atrocity on Europe’s immigration policy, while his fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz demands special patrols for Muslim communities to stop them being “radicalised” – a policy guaranteed to do the opposite.
(17) Distorting realities, ignoring nuances and hijacking people’s fears: that’s the recipe for a demagogue who lives not on his own wits but others’ miseries.
(18) Now they have won and what Kipling said of the demagogues of his age applies to Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
(19) Beyond the violent and potentially violent lie fractured and isolated ghettos, where large numbers are prey to religious demagogues.
(20) I'm not a demagogue or an actor; the French expect something else from me, they want results," he said.
Demagoguery
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump now looks almost certain to inherit a party he has left bitterly divided through a brand of politics defined by innuendo, race-baiting and outright demagoguery .
(2) The September 11 Demagoguery award included a nomination for the Republican congressman Saxby Chambliss from Georgia who suggested that a good strategy to combat terrorism would be to "arrest every Muslim that crossed the state line.".
(3) In the world we’re living, in different places, we have political leaders, political stakeholders that use demagoguery and have populist slogans that want to eliminate and destroy what has been built,” he said.
(4) Laclau would never use the concept of populism in the way that readers of the Guardian would understand it,” he said, denying that there was any demagoguery in Podemos and adding that, to Laclau, most politics was populism anyway.
(5) August 25, 2015 Graham responded sharply in a CNN interview Tuesday, accusing Trump of “demagoguery” and saying that he would best Trump in a head-to-head matchup.
(6) Deploying his trademark demagoguery, the Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley summed it up best when he called for an end to the show's "leftie, multicultural crap" and asked for some Red Arrows and Shakespeare instead.
(7) That’s called demagoguery.” He referred at times to the violent clashes that erupted at recent Trump rallies over the weekend, likening them to “third world images” that posed a threat to the republic.
(8) The situation is not likely to change any time soon, and so it is welcome that someone with clout is taking the high ground, instead of pandering to demagoguery.
(9) It's actually the breed he's been trying to emulate most recently, and which has served him so well as he distances himself from the reactionary demagoguery of the primaries and seeks to present himself as more reasonable, considered candidate – who is not a "severe" conservative but a compassionate one.
(10) But as we learned in the United States during our experience with the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, it is essential that no prior governmental restraints or intimidation be imposed on a truly free press; otherwise, in such darkness, we encourage the risk of our democracies falling prey to despotism and demagoguery and even criminality by our elected leaders and government officials.
(11) If in the age of Brexit, Trump and nationalist demagoguery, the liberal order is now under threat, then Havel’s message becomes very relevant once more: it’s when the odds are stacked against you that it becomes important to “continuously try new things”.
(12) Outside Le Pen’s heartlands there is a widespread fear of the party, which many continue to associate with the old tags of demagoguery, xenophobia or racism.
(13) He claimed Cameron's position was incoherent, accusing the British PM of 'demagoguery' in his zeal to cut spending.
(14) Asked if his election had held back populism in Europe, Macron said he was “not so arrogant” to think his election marked a complete stop to demagoguery.
(15) For regimes that routinely endorse anti-Semitic propaganda and which play on anti-Zionist sentiment, last week's events show the risks of demagoguery.
(16) He doesn't understand what the word demagoguery means.
(17) Yet to relax now in the belief that the dice have already been rolled, and that far-right demagoguery is on its way to the dustbin of history would be a risky assumption – if not folly.
(18) The fossil industry maintains its strangle-hold on Washington via demagoguery, using China and other developing nations as scapegoats to rationalise inaction.
(19) That national poll – only the third in our history – was rich on demagoguery and unsubstantiated claims.
(20) For all the rightwing demagoguery associated with the NRA, this is quite a radical notion.