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also demagog
as in agitator
a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent
that politician is just a demagogue who preys upon people's fears and prejudices
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That’s a hopeful data point at a time when an anti-immigrant demagogue is dangerously close to recapturing the White House.
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Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Now this person of unusual suggestibility has become second in command to a first-order demagogue, giving himself over to MAGA theology.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
But the demagogue is usually successful in politics.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2024
Gone would be the divisive demagogue, awakened would be a unifier.
—Michael Aronson, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
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Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Now this person of unusual suggestibility has become second in command to a first-order demagogue, giving himself over to MAGA theology.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
But the demagogue is usually successful in politics.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2024
Gone would be the divisive demagogue, awakened would be a unifier.
—Michael Aronson, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
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“Demagogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogue. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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