2021 All the while, the thousands of deaths and injuries in foreign wars, the trillions of dollars spent on nation building, fury at Washington elites and prejudice against Islam brewed a pool of resentment ripe for a demagogue. Washington Post, 12 July 2021 Actually, it was dreamed up by President Dwight Eisenhower, who wasn’t even a lawyer, during the Army-McCarthy hearings to bar testimony about a White House meeting on how to silence a certain red-baiting demagogue from Wisconsin. congressman, 93, who died July 12 of respiratory problems, was a brazen practitioner of the corrupt-politics-as-theatrics style mastered by the legendary Depression-era demagogue Huey Long. 2021 The former Louisiana governor and US congressman, 93, who died Monday of respiratory problems, was a brazen practitioner of the corrupt-politics-as-theatrics style mastered by the legendary Depression-era demagogue Huey Long.ī, 13 July 2021 The former Louisiana governor and U.S. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun What's a demagogue's reaction to a rabid crowd at a rally? Tom Morganthau et al., Newsweek, 11 Dec. House Republicans mostly stifled the urge to demagogue against his plan. That politician is just a demagogue who preys upon people's fears and prejudices Verb But Clinton's boldness seemed to work, at least within the Beltway.

His opponent called him a bigoted demagogue. Goaded by talk-radio demagogues, hundreds of citizens surrounded the Statehouse in a near riot. The state is facing a shortfall of some $310 million-but legislators remember what happened last year when they considered imposing the first income tax on wages. 2004 Here's the background: Tennessee's finances are a mess. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. Wood, Revolutionary Characters, 2006 Before the U.S. But when in the decades following the Revolution the people seemed to succumb to the deceit and flattery of mushroom demagogues, who were the popular counterparts of courtiers, the Federalists became bewildered and bitter.

Noun Like other good Whigs, they had assumed that the people, once free of English influence, would honor and elevate the country's true patriots and natural aristocracy in ways that the English Crown had not.

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