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
Lines like that, though, do not do Miller justice, as either a villain, a demagogue, or a policymaker.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
Father and mother act like demagogue politicians, waving at crowds from balconies while relieving themselves of the burden of their impossible son.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
He drove Saturninus to the Capitol, where, being without provisions, the demagogue found himself at last driven to an unprovisional surrender.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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