demagogic

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Oedipus sees himself as an answer to the demagogic manipulation that has wrought havoc.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

"Ugly and appalling as they are, those speeches are masterpieces of demagogic manipulation," Neuborne says.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

Ms. Thénault, the historian, acknowledged Mr. Macron’s efforts but noted that his symbolic gestures to each community linked to the Algerian war sometimes seemed demagogic.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2022

As a Virginia planter, Washington might have sympathized with Madison and Jefferson, but he shared the Federalists' love of order and increasingly distrusted Republicans as demagogic and irresponsible.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

At the same time, it has all but abandoned the old demagogic talk about representing the citizen as consumer against the citizen as producer.

From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by Walling, William English