demagogy

Examples from literature

Beware of the demagogue in whatever guise he presents himself. 
In this condition the demagogue harangued the people. 
The Free People of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom. 
The demagogues howled for a battle. 
The story of the carriage was told, and he was declared to be a turbulent demagogue, only desirous of getting popularity. 

demagogue | American Dictionary

demagogue
noun[ C ]
 disapprovingus/ˈdem·əˌɡɑɡ/
a person, esp. a political leader, who wins support by exciting people’s emotions rather than giving them reasons

Examples of demagogue

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Consequently, parastates shunned electoral politics because of its domination by corrupt demagogues and condemned legislatures for their parochialism.
Here, the system would redirect the natural sentiment to attach to close objects (like local demagogues) towards the more distant union.
The roles that bioethicists occupy in the public field can be crudely characterized as the following: demagogues, firefighters, window dressers, and academics.
Permanent transition has its own informal rules, which a praetorian demagogue violates at his peril.
While there is truth in this position, as this article has shown, the statement also underrates the role of local demagogues.
However, he was not yet a racial demagogue.
Where the demagogue publicly appealed to the mob, the pious woman appealed privately to individuals, even if, as "proprietors" or "countrymen," they were strangers.
The end result would be a society governed by hysteria, in which politics would be run by demagogues in television companies.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Not for nothing do universities become one of the first targets of demagogues and dictators.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
He said that the "late financial administration"had"retired to those dim splendours at the end of the corridor which are the goal of all rising demagogues".
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