demagogue
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After Pericles’ death from plague in 429 B.C., rhetorical and political authority is seized by Cleon, an upstart demagogue who is the “most violent person in Athens” and “the most persuasive.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
But he also turned on his vice-president, reposting a comment on X in which she was labelled a "traitor, a demagogue and stupid in economic terms".
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025
“Parade,” which delves into antisemitism, systemic bias in our judicial system and the power of a wily demagogue to stoke atavistic hatred for self-gain, has a disconcerting timeliness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
Watson was an effective demagogue because he practiced a politics of anger in an era that demanded it.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024
But one felt that his amiable manners concealed the energy and the fearlessness of a true demagogue, and, if need be, he would give clear, vigorous, and absolutely truthful expression to his convictions.
From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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