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Like other good Whigs, they had assumed that the people, once free of English influence, would honor and elevate the country's true patriots and natural aristocracy in ways that the English Crown had not. But when in the decades following the Revolution the people seemed to succumb to the deceit and flattery of mushroom demagogues , who were the popular counterparts of courtiers, the Federalists became bewildered and bitter. — Gordon S. Wood , Revolutionary Characters ,

Before the U.S. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue . — Tim Padgett et al. , Time ,

Here's the background: Tennessee's finances are a mess. The state is facing a shortfall of some $310 million—but legislators remember what happened last year when they considered imposing the first income tax on wages. Goaded by talk-radio demagogues , hundreds of citizens surrounded the Statehouse in a near riot. — Editor & Publisher ,

His opponent called him a bigoted demagogue.

that politician is just a demagogue who preys upon people's fears and prejudices

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