demagoguery

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Examples

• At least, that is, when such a shakedown isn’t already poisoned by almost two years of demagoguery and sloganeering.

• Populist anger in politics can lead to reform, but it can also lead to demagoguery and the erosion of trust and democracy.

• He said the South needed to set itself free “from hate, from demagoguery.”

• In the end, however, his astonishing success showed how demagoguery could overcome potentially career-ending challenges—and profoundly change history.

• However, Abbott is not about to let cold hard facts get in the way of a little politically motivated demagoguery.

• Charges of naivete, cluelessness, and “nonsense demagoguery” were hurled back and forth.

• Clearly Ted learned his bare-knuckles, crazy-ass demagoguery at the knee of a master.

• I have criticized the Republicans for trying to make supporting Israel a wedge issue through demagoguery.

• Worse, Romney has indulged in his own demagoguery, attacking the president for being “the real outsourcer-in-chief.”

• They feel that they would be doing a public service in offsetting the demagoguery and sensationalism of most of the popular press.

• He felt that he himself was right; yet he could not deny that "Josh's cheap demagoguery" sounded fine and true.

• And you think with your little spewing demagoguery of newspaper filth, you can override me?

• But the most notable example of demagoguery to-day is not a man, though he be clothed with thunder, but an institution.

• I deplore the interjection of demagoguery and personal political advancement.