mob rule

The following day, Hoover issued a statement explaining that he had acted to prevent the government from being “coerced by mob rule.”

In Ware County, in the southeast corner of the state, the election board chair is tied to far-right groups and has called democracy “mob rule.”

Defending both men, Paul Lewis said: "As they stand before you after a period of reflection, they both now recognise there is no grievance that can be properly addressed by mob rule."

But perhaps most disturbing to Jewish students, the wider Jewish community and any of us who seek to uphold the values of liberal democracy against mob rule was the final agreement with the protesters — a truly “rotten compromise” that was more defining of the university than reflective of an effort to resolve a dispute in a mutually unsatisfying but ultimately equitable manner.

He also warned police chiefs of "a growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule".