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Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer and propagandist who was considered in Germany to be an inflammatory agitator, emerges in a more nuanced light.

Ms McLaughlin said that "officers repeatedly told the crowd of agitators and journalists to get back, move, and get out of the elevator".

Which brings me to the consent theory of power, a favorite of theorists and agitators from way back, updated by Gene Sharp, an advocate of nonviolent resistance.

The coalition between our plutocracy and the lowest reaches of internet trolls and right-wing agitators is hardly unprecedented.

"We're going to get out there and we're going to do a pretty big number on those people in Portland," he told reporters in the Oval Office, describing the targets as "professional agitators and anarchists".