What's the difference between demagoguery and demagogy?

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.

Demagogy


Definition:

  • (n.) Demagogism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There is a strong need for real political leadership to resist the 'fortress Europe' temptation and to avoid extremism and demagogy," said Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for home affairs.
  • (2) I did this because I wanted to show that I don’t agree with this demagogy.
  • (3) Anonymous, 67-year-old from Budapest ‘I don’t agree with this demagogy’ I did not participate in this referendum by voting yes or no.
  • (4) Cameron was accused of demagogy in his anti-European rhetoric and he directed plenty of cheap shots at Brussels, overpaid and underworked eurocrats, and rival leaders allegedly seeking to paint him into a corner.

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