rabble-rouser

Smalls is a decidedly charismatic rabble-rouser in the momentous year “Union” chronicles.

Ferguson has been a steady conservative, but not a right-wing rabble-rouser.

“I’m a rabble-rouser who does humorous social commentary within a rock-and-roll setting,” he told The New York Times in 1990.

But his detractors say he is a rabble-rouser who uses populism to win public sympathy.

It was even more eyebrow-raising because the conservative rabble-rouser had proposed 27 amendments to the budget.